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Webster 1913 Edition

Garden

Gar′den

(gär′d’n; 277)
,
Noun.
[OE.
gardin
, OF.
gardin
,
jardin
, F.
jardin
, of German origin; cf. OHG.
garto
, G.
garten
; akin to AS.
geard
. See
Yard
an inclosure.]
1.
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
2.
A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant
garden
of great Italy.
Shakespeare
☞ Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
Garden balsam
,
an ornamental plant (
Impatiens Balsamina
).
–
Garden engine
,
a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
–
Garden glass
.
(a)
A bell glass for covering plants.
(b)
A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; – much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
–
Garden house
(a)
A summer house.
Beau. & Fl.
(b)
A privy.
[Southern U.S.]
–
Garden husbandry
,
the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
–
Garden mold
or
Garden mould
,
rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden.
Mortimer.
–
Garden nail
,
a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls.
Knight.
–
Garden net
,
a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
–
Garden party
,
a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
–
Garden plot
,
a plot appropriated to a garden.
Garden pot
,
a watering pot.
–
Garden pump
,
a garden engine; a barrow pump.
–
Garden shears
,
large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
–
Garden spider
,
(Zool.)
,
the diadem spider (
Epeira diadema
), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See
Geometric spider
, and
Spider web
.
–
Garden stand
,
a stand for flower pots.
–
Garden stuff
,
vegetables raised in a garden.
[Colloq.]
–
Garden syringe
,
a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
–
Garden truck
,
vegetables raised for the market.
[Colloq.]
–
Garden ware
,
garden truck.
[Obs.]
Mortimer.
–
Bear garden
,
Botanic garden
,
etc. See under
Bear
, etc.
–
Hanging garden
.
See under
Hanging
.
–
Kitchen garden
,
a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
–
Market garden
,
a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.

Gar′den

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gardened
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gardening
.]
To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.

Gar′den

,
Verb.
T.
To cultivate as a garden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Garden

G`ARDEN

,
Noun.
[Eng. yard, an inclosed place; L. hortus.]
1.
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house. Land appropriated to the raising of culinary herbs and roots for domestic use, is called a kitchen-garden; that appropriated to flowers and shrubs is called a flower garden; and that to fruits, is called a fruit garden. But these uses are sometimes blended.
2.
A rich, well cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot. The intervals on the river Connecticut are all a garden. Lombardy is the garden of Italy.
Garden, in composition, is used adjectively, as garden-mold, a rich fine mold or soil; garden-tillage,the tillage used in cultivating gardens.

G`ARDEN

,
Verb.
I.
To layout and to cultivate a garden; to prepare ground to plant and till it, for the purpose of producing plants, shrubs, flowers and fruits.

Definition 2024

Garden

Garden

See also: garden, gärden, and gården

German

Noun

Garden

  1. plural of Garde

garden

garden

See also: Garden, gärden, and gården

English

A Japanese garden.

Noun

garden ‎(plural gardens)

  1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
    a vegetable garden  a flower garden‎
    1. (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
      You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.‎
    2. (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
      a garden party;  a garden spade;  a garden path‎
      • 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, Part II, chapter5:
        The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered. Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses. There were lovely ices […] with every kind of cream cake, of sandwich, of éclair, and peaches, muscat grapes, and nectarines.
  2. The grounds at the front or back of a house.
    This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.  We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.  Our garden is overgrown with weeds.‎
  3. (figuratively) A cluster, a bunch.
  4. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
    • 1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006
      Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits. (A commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c950 BC; book footnotes shown here bracketed within the text; many scholars disagree with the Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of usage in 1995 rather than intended meaning in 950 BC.)
    • c2004, Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at haircaredownthere.com on 9 May 2006 -
      Primping and pruning the secret garden might seem like a totally 21st century concept, but the fact is women have gotten into below-the-belt grooming since before the Bronze Age.
    • 2006, Guest on Female First Forum at femalefirst.co.uk posting on Fashionable to shave the pubic area?? viewed on 9 May 2006
      A woman's [unshaven] dark pubic triangle, glistening with pussy nectar and promising access to a hidden garden of delights.

Synonyms

  • (decorative place outside):
  • (gardens with public access): park, public gardens
  • (grounds at the front or back of a house): yard (US)
  • (the pubic hair): See pubic hair

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

garden ‎(third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)

  1. (intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
    I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
  2. (intransitive, cricket) of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

Synonyms

  • (in cricket): farm

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

garden ‎(not comparable)

  1. Common, ordinary, domesticated.

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

garden c

  1. singular definite of garde

Galician

Verb

garden

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of gardar

Norwegian

Etymology 1

Noun

garden m

  1. singular definite of gard

Etymology 2

Noun

garden m

  1. singular definite of garde

Etymology

From Middle English garden, from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French gardin (compare modern French jardin from Old French jardin), diminutive (compare Vulgar Latin hortus gardinus) or oblique form of *gard (compare Old French jart), from Old Low Frankish *gardin, *gardo ‎(“fenced in yard, garden”) (compare Dutch gaarde, gaard), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (compare West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, German Garten), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz ‎(“yeard”). More at yard.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: gärʹdən, IPA(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)dən/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dən

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