garden

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   work in the garden

   My hobby is gardening

2. 2
   noun

   An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

   a vegetable garden

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.

   32 Windsor Gardens.

5. 5
   noun

   A cluster; a bunch.

   Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.

6. 6
   noun

   Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

   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.

7. 7
   verb

   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.

8. 8
   adj

   Common, ordinary, domesticated.

   In that case, the thing was mere plain or garden robbery.

Etymology

From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin. Displaced Old English wyrttūn. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.