Definition of "garden"

garden

/ˈɡɑːdən/

noun
plural gardens
1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
  Quotations
  […] I ſuppoſe the North ſide of the water to be the beſt ſide for your garden, that it may haue the comfort of the South Sunne to lye vpon it and face it, and the dwelling houſe to bee aboue it, to defend the cold windes and froſts both from your herbes, and flowers, and early fruits.
  1629, John Parkinson, “The Situation of a Garden of Pleasure, with the Nature of Soyles, and How to Amend the Defects that are in Many Sorts of Situations and Grounds”, in Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. […], London: […] Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng […], page 1
  1. (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
  2. (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
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    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.
    1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins
2. (Britain, Ireland, Appalachia) The grounds at the front or back of a house.
3. (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
4. (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
  Quotations
  Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.
  1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11
5. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
  Quotations
  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.
  1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org 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.
  c. 2004, Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at haircaredownthere.com on 9 May 2006 -
verb
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.
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.
adjective
not comparable
1. Common, ordinary, domesticated.

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