Garden
['gɑːd(ə)n] or ['ɡɑrdn]
Definition
(noun.) a plot of ground where plants are cultivated.
(noun.) a yard or lawn adjoining a house.
(noun.) the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden.
(verb.) work in the garden; 'My hobby is gardening'.
Checked by Carlton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
(n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
(v. i.) To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
(v. t.) To cultivate as a garden.
Checked by Curtis
Definition
n. a piece of ground on which flowers &c. are cultivated: a pleasant spot.—ns. Gar′dener; Gar′den-glass a bell-glass for covering plants; Gar′dening the act of laying out and cultivating gardens; Gar′den-par′ty a party held on the lawn or in the garden of a private house.—Garden of Eden (see Eden); Hanging garden a garden formed in terraces rising one above another—e.g. those of Nebuchadnezzar at Babylon; Market gardener a gardener who raises vegetables fruits &c. for sale; Philosophers of the garden followers of Epicurus who taught in a garden.
Checker: Nona
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a garden in your dreams, filled with evergreen and flowers, denotes great peace of mind and comfort. To see vegetables, denotes misery or loss of fortune and calumny. To females, this dream foretells that they will be famous, or exceedingly happy in domestic circles. To dream of walking with one's lover through a garden where flowering shrubs and plants abound, indicates unalloyed happiness and independent means.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
From the Fr. garantir, to make good. Hence, a place where lovers make good.
Edited by Annabel
Examples
- His strength returned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been seen walking about the garden. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I have been with him in the garden. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Let yourself into the garden, and make your way in by the conservatory door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening's tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The garden gate was open to the lane, and I went in at once to inquire my way. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I was out in the garden again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We had a temporary lodging in Covent Garden. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But instead, he crossed the lawn and turned toward the box-garden. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Her uncle, always liberal, had bought a garden-chair for her express use. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now the two great fleets closed in a titanic struggle far above the fiendish din of battle in the gorgeous gardens of the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Haste to the outer gardens, or you are lost. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He ordered me to be thrown into one of the great pits in the inner gardens. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There is a wild horse of Tartary; and here, most strange of all--is a land of ice and snow, without green fields, woods, or gardens. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As the pirates swooped closer toward the ground, thern soldiery poured from the temples into the gardens and courts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Didn't Hayes give you the best out of our gardens? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The courts and gardens are filled with slaves, with women and with children. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In the foreground glowed the warm tints of the gardens. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- To charge that the various activities of gardening, weaving, construction in wood, manipulation of metals, cooking, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In this park are several small enclosures for cattle, corn, and gardening. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He found a considerable quantity in the sluice-boxes of the Cherokee Valley Mining Company; but just then he found also that fruit-gardening was the thing, and dropped the subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The amiable creature with the polished head told me a long story, which I think was about gardening. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I wish William could get a job as gardener or summat i' that way; he understands gardening weel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- After that, he fell to gardening, and I saw him from my gothic window pretending to employ the Aged, and nodding at him in a most devoted manner. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Clym tried to imagine Venn's choice for a moment; but ceasing to be interested in the question he went on again with his gardening. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am going away to wash my hands, which are somewhat grubby with my gardening, and will return in a few moments. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Gardening, for example, need not be taught either for the sake of preparing future gardeners, or as an agreeable way of passing time. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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