garden
(gɑːʳdən )
Word forms: gardens , gardening , gardened
1. countable noun A1
In British English, a garden is a piece of land next to a house, with flowers, vegetables, other plants, and often grass. In American English, the usual word is yard, and a garden refers only to land which is used for growing flowers and vegetables.
...the most beautiful garden on Earth.
Synonyms: grounds, park, plot, patch
2. verb B2
If you garden, you do work in your garden such as weeding or planting.
Jim gardened at the homes of friends on weekends. [VERB]
gardening uncountable noun B2
I have taken up gardening again.
3. plural noun
Gardens are places like a park that have areas of plants, trees, and grass, and that people can visit and walk around.
The Gardens are open from 10.30am until 5pm.
...Kensington Gardens.
4. countable noun
Gardens is sometimes used as part of the name of a street.
He lives at 9, Acacia Gardens.
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GARDEN lawn trellis shrub gate fence birdhouse garden furniture path flowers patio flowerpot Quotations:
We must cultivate our gardensCandide
God Almighty first planted a garden, and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasuresEssays
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's Heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earthGod's Garden
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's Heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earthGod's Garden
Paradise haunts gardens, and some gardens are paradisesDerek Jarman's Garden
Idioms:
lead someone up the garden path [mainly British] or lead someone down the garden path
to deceive someone by making them believe something which is not true
He may have led me up the garden path. He said everything was over with Penny but now he seems to be seeing her again.
Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Collocations:
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Once a royal hunting lodge, it's now a country house hotel in 50 acres of gardens and parkland.
The Sun
Dating from the 17th century, the château has ten acres of gardens and woodland, and a lavishly restored 15th-century dovecote.
Times,Sunday Times
Three acres of gardens feature yew hedging and parkland views.
Times, Sunday Times
First planted in the early 1900s, naturalised drifts of snowdrops meander over one and a half miles through the 40 acres of gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
The house has 1.2 acres of gardens and grounds, including a tennis court.
Times, Sunday Times
Belters for close-up viewing, then, but less impressive beyond the garden gate.
Times, Sunday Times
Or the parcels could have been dropped over the garden gate, as happened to a customer who was waiting for a delivery of glass plates.
Times, Sunday Times
For the next few weeks, every time that anyone passes through our garden gate the goldfinch 'burglar alarm' will sound.
Times, Sunday Times
She had locked her front door and garden gate after the rest of her family went shopping.
The Sun
Bring one home and, before you know it, your garden gate will be open to a flood of others.
Times, Sunday Times
It can also be used for sea kale or simply as a garden ornament.
Times, Sunday Times
He seemed to have all the tactical nous of a polyurethane garden ornament.
Times, Sunday Times
So one must congratulate the makers of a somewhat naff garden ornament that circulates water around a series of stacked bowls.
Times, Sunday Times
The treasure was even exposed to the weather as a garden ornament before it was finally taken inside about 40 years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
A boat would be better off 'scuttled' than filled in with concrete and turned into a gaudy garden ornament amid a 'square lobelia sea', she insists in the opening poem.
The Times Literary Supplement
I'm a garden pest, feasting on most plants.
The Sun
The spittlebug, a common garden pest found worldwide, appears to claim the unofficial title of the world's best jumper.
Globe and Mail
When the plants fill the modules, plant out, keeping the ground clear to minimise damage from such garden pests.
Times, Sunday Times
Retail products that target garden pests aren't effective for serious mosquito control.
Globe and Mail
Wet weather and above-average temperatures early in the winter meant breeding conditions this spring could be ideal for many garden pests, particularly slugs.
The Sun
Uses - a very useful and versatile medicinal herb; its white frothy flowers make it a pleasing garden plant.
Planning the Organic Herb Garden (1986)
With a freshness and abundance that looks forward to the heady days of summer, it should make a perfect garden plant.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
There's a loft bedroom and a garden around the property, as well as a large separate garden plot.
The Sun
Her garden plot will be split by a giant smartphone.
Times, Sunday Times
She was given a small garden plot when she was four years old that she could tend as her very own.
Globe and Mail
The house, on a 25-by-125-foot lot, comes with legal front pad parking and a sunroom addition off the back overlooking a deep garden plot.
Globe and Mail
In the garden plot a flower from the outer space grows up.
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This turned out to be next door's garden pond.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
His interest in damselflies and dragonflies was awakened when he first noticed them around his garden pond.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I particularly like the suggestion of using it to line a garden pond.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He had to saw through the wood before lifting the creature out and releasing it by a garden pond in Norwich.
The Sun (2016)
She must have her garden shed and cellar keys too.
The Sun (2011)
I've kind of become a little infamous for working on music in my garden shed too.
The Sun (2010)
It is easy to imagine him being locked in his garden shed for hours on end with only a set of keyboards for company.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Now with more than 2,000 objects, he has outgrown his garden shed but still uses his metal detector in an attempt to add to his collection.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Or at the very least a large garden shed.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The 16th-floor club, reached by a private keycard-operated lift, has a garden terrace filled with orange trees, ivy and geraniums.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A trio of french windows opening from the kitchen on to the garden terrace makes for effortless alfresco eating.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
And the wooden delivery pallets have been recycled into 30 sofas and 25 tables for the garden terrace.
The Sun (2016)
The unifying feature of the house is his white polished cement floor, which runs through all the rooms and out to the garden terrace.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Inside, it is a different world: galleried living spaces, an indoor fishpond and an expansive garden terrace.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Found in many historic gardens, they are rarer in modern ones.
Times, Sunday Times
Once bitten by the bug, the couple certainly did their homework, visiting historic gardens and reading widely.
Times, Sunday Times
In parks and historic gardens, groundsmen have seen dark sores where trees have shed their bark and bled a glutinous resin.
Times, Sunday Times
The trust recently began a wildlife survey to find out just what was hiding in its historic gardens, and has asked wildlife enthusiasts who visit them to report their findings.
Times, Sunday Times
An appeal was made in 2007 to discover the plant in historic gardens.
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Seeds are easily available and the plant can be grown in a home garden.
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Many of the city's major parks and gardens are especially prepared for the carnival, including an important home garden competition and parade of flower floats.
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Varieties of fruits and vegetables are grown in these home gardens to provide supplies of nutrient rich foods all year round.
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The site's inhabitants may have transported these plants from their homelands and transplanted them to home gardens.
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Domestically, locals grow vegetables and fruits in their home gardens.
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I love the natural cycle of an indoor garden, their independence.
Times, Sunday Times
Succulents and their prickly cousins, cacti, however, are the lazy gal's answer to an indoor garden.
Times, Sunday Times
The 541 sq metre home will have six bedrooms, an indoor pool, a sauna, a two-storey indoor garden and a 'wellbeing area'.
Times, Sunday Times
Once you are happy with your composition you can add a decorative layer of pebbles, glass beads or moss to your indoor garden and give it a spritz of water.
Times, Sunday Times
The columns which surround the old indoor garden, and support the structure, had added to them 1000 tons of steel and 4.5 tons of sandstone.
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Residents pay 110 a year towards a communal landscape garden.
Times, Sunday Times
The detailed original floor and landscape garden plans hang inside the house.
Times, Sunday Times
A gate in the wall leads to a mini landscape garden complete with lake, island and classical and orientally inspired waterworks on a grand scale.
Times, Sunday Times
They are open to the public as a historic landscape garden and house museum.
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This was a large landscape garden and formed the entrance to the fortress.
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And the flat comes with a lovely garden.
Times, Sunday Times
It has a lovely garden in which to sit and read the local papers.
Times, Sunday Times
Every house has something special about it, whether it's a loft conversion or a lovely garden.
The Sun
It's in a nice rustic environment, and has a lovely garden.
Times, Sunday Times
Even walking through the supposedly lovely garden we had to step over shards of concrete and live wires.
Times, Sunday Times
Some rooms have wooden decks facing the lush garden with lawns and palm trees.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
She takes me outside to her lush garden to show off her roses in premature full bloom.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The patio area has a Jacuzzi and looks out on a lush garden.
The Sun (2017)
Plans for a memorial garden on the site were shelved.
The Sun (2013)
She too was in floods of tears at the mass of tributes in the memorial garden.
The Sun (2009)
He also helped plant a cherry tree in the memorial garden on the school site.
The Sun (2016)
He retired in 1986 to open his nursery garden.
Times, Sunday Times
If you can go and see them in a nursery garden or at a flower show, do take the opportunity to make a choice.
Times, Sunday Times
He left school at 16 to work in a small nursery garden venture begun by his father.
Times, Sunday Times
It was then boosted by the opening of nursery gardens, the publication of specialized works and the establishment of new botanical gardens.
The Times Literary Supplement
This site previously had greenhouses for local nursery gardens and was re-landscaped by local groups and volunteers.
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This island hotel offers six suites surrounded by a vineyard, an organic garden and a Michelin-starred restaurant inside a glass cube.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
For those with the money to spend on an ornamental garden, and leisure time to spend in it, they were social environments.
Times, Sunday Times
And there we were thinking they'd at least find a monopoly in 1 ornamental garden hedgehogs.
Times, Sunday Times
This 13th-century château has five acres of gardens and woods, with lawns and an ornamental garden crossed by a small stream.
Times, Sunday Times
There are more than 30 varieties on display, with free tours of the ornamental garden and snowdrop valley at 11am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm.
Times, Sunday Times
And if the former, why has it got ornamental garden seats?
The Times Literary Supplement
Stopping at the edge of the wood, they peered at what had once been a pretty if overgrown garden and an idyllically sited house.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
We walked a few streets to a little two-storey house surrounded by an overgrown garden.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad (2003)
Beyond the buildings were five acres of overgrown garden and meadow.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We sat in the leafy, overgrown garden, where wild herbs and flowers spiced the air and the mismatched tables were topped with salvaged mosaic tiles.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
The pristine, overgrown garden had sat empty for decades.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Better to go for one on the first floor: room 127 has a terrace overlooking the garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It has a large reception room with huge windows overlooking the garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The elegant dining room is a pleasant setting, but better still is the sun-drenched terrace overlooking the garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In particular the size of the building and the terraces will mean that my garden is overlooked in an oppressive and intrusive manner.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
There in the sunlit conservatory overlooking the garden his parents and other relations were perched on cane chairs.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There's also a nicely modernised 30ft kitchen-diner and a patio garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
There is a kitchen, double reception room and a conservatory, while outside there is a patio garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It has two big bedrooms, a mezzanine area and a little patio garden to chill out in.
The Sun (2015)
A sleek kitchen leads to a patio garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Given the urban location, the front driveway and rear garden areas are precious.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It has wonderful character, with many rooms, a large rear garden and views over open farmland.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Forensic teams were carrying out a fingertip search of the rear garden yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
These are houses with small rear gardens and very short front garden paths.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation (1990)
The master bedroom is a generous size and the secluded rear garden has been landscaped.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It was returfed and planted as a rooftop garden.
Times, Sunday Times
And then spare a thought for whoever has an office on the top floor of the building where they are putting the rooftop garden.
The Sun
It has a great hall and a rooftop garden.
Times, Sunday Times
The 10,500 sq ft venue has its own bar, sauna and rooftop garden with whirlpool tub.
The Sun
An unassuming facade in a quiet back street hides an impressive club-like dining area, two bars, an al fresco terrace and rooftop garden.
The Sun
The bulbs in the secret garden must have been much astonished.
The Secret Garden (1911)
My secret garden has been cleaned up and cut back now, and the fence mended.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They could be wandering around a secret garden, exploring outer space or swinging into a crazy jungle to spy hidden treasures.
The Sun (2014)
There are seven exquisitely furnished casitas, each with its own kitchen and set in a shady garden with hammocks, sunbeds and a plunge pool.
Times, Sunday Times
Try it in a paved shady garden or courtyard, and collect up those dropped leaves in summer.
Times, Sunday Times
The large, shady garden and the two rattan-roofed terraces with sofas and dining tables right beside the pool are brilliant for families with young swimmers.
Times, Sunday Times
For example, slate in a shady garden will only increase the gloomy feel, so transform the space by bouncing the limited light around.
Times, Sunday Times
Ferns are staples of the shady garden, where they enjoy a position in damp, dappled shade.
Times, Sunday Times
They come with their own bar, restaurant and pool, as well as access to the main house and its spectacular gardens.
Times,Sunday Times
Our destination proved to be the scenic highlight, with one of the world's most spectacular gardens over three levels.
The Sun
Surrounded by 200 acres of grounds, it has one of the most spectacular gardens in the country, with swathes of shrub and border terracing stepping down the hillside.
Times, Sunday Times
The spectacular gardens contain the boxwood parterre from the 1870s.
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As their nursery and its reputation grew so did their spectacular gardens containing many rare plants.
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There's also a white garden, a spring garden and a rose garden.
Times, Sunday Times
For next year, buy hundreds of narcissi, alliums and tulips to plant in autumn and bring cheer to the spring garden.
Times, Sunday Times
Bulbs are the flashing, evanescent jewels of a spring garden.
Times, Sunday Times
There are 2,500 acres of grounds, including lakes, woodland, spring gardens and a rose garden dotted with statues.
Times, Sunday Times
I have five different kinds on the boundaries of my suburban garden.
The Sun
Today, the idea of turning your suburban garden into an eco-farm looks oddly prescient.
Times, Sunday Times
I have nostalgic memories of lighting the autumn leaf pile in our suburban garden and then rescuing the flambéed tortoise.
Times, Sunday Times
Gardeners and designers can be extremely snobby about them; they are often viewed as vegetation for the mollycoddled suburban garden.
Times, Sunday Times
The 8in visitor landed in a suburban garden, bringing bird-spotters flocking to see it.
The Sun
What would a summer garden be without lilies, so luscious and at the same time so delicate?
Times, Sunday Times
A summer garden can look terribly chaotic, however colourful.
Times, Sunday Times
Warm vanilla, citrus bergamot, the snap of pink pepper and raspberry gently smoulder, transporting you to a heat-soaked summer garden as the sun sets.
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One of the most visible was the summer garden party, a tradition that now brings 30,000 people to the palace every year.
Times, Sunday Times
Where would a late summer garden be without hydrangeas, whether you prefer the mop-heads, the lace-caps, or the drum-headed paniculata types.
Times, Sunday Times
It has a sunny garden and good access to local transport.
The Sun (2012)
They will grow well in any sunny garden on all reasonably fertile soils.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It's got a sunny garden, two garages and a modern, fitted kitchen and bathroom.
The Sun (2012)
I cook, do the shopping, washing, ironing, cleaning and even tend the garden.
The Sun
When we marry, we vow to tend the garden - to love, honor, cherish - remember?
Christianity Today
In his all-too-short holidays, he would walk in the hills or tend his garden, but the problems of the university, and of his college, were never far from his thoughts.
Times, Sunday Times
Staff members, after their daily work in the kitchen, tend the garden, which has about 150 plants.
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If they learn to propagate they can make other humans to tend the garden and thus be free to escape from living when they wish.
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Each villa has a tropical garden, private pool and a butler service.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a serene place to recuperate, with the most amazing tropical garden to get lost in.
Times, Sunday Times
The peaceful tropical garden has a swing seat, perfect for lazing with a novel.
Times, Sunday Times
Renovated last year, the 52 sq metre property has two bedrooms, one bathroom, a covered veranda and a tropical garden with an outdoor shower.
Times, Sunday Times
The thicket of tropical garden, where poisonous snakes once lurked, has been tamed to expose neat lawns.
Times, Sunday Times
How can people incorporate your philosophy and look in a small urban garden?
Times, Sunday Times
These are useful skills for making the most of a small urban garden.
Times, Sunday Times
All of us are increasingly aware of our environment, and the urban garden has an important part to play here.
Times, Sunday Times
It's stylish and contemporary, with a bar, an urban garden and knockout 360-degree views.
Times, Sunday Times
An application should take no longer than 20 minutes for an average sized urban garden.
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They visit the garden to explain where ingredients come from.
Times, Sunday Times
They can sit in the café and have a coffee, go to the post office or the shops or visit the garden.
Times, Sunday Times
Stay in the village so you can visit the garden before the crowds arrive.
Times, Sunday Times
Visit a garden centre this weekend and you'll find the shelves at the front crammed with trays of bedding plants for summer containers.
Times, Sunday Times
The types of flower that you plant can have a dramatic impact on the number of butterflies, bees, ladybirds and other beneficial insects that visit your garden.
Times, Sunday Times
I inherited a thriving bay tree, growing in a sheltered but shady corner of a walled garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
If it's possible to screen off the swimming pool - within a walled garden, say - so much the better.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A formal box parterre and a charming pigeon house give winter shape to the walled garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There's a sunken garden, a water meadow, a knot garden, a wild flower meadow, walled garden and yew terrace.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Or head for the bothies in the walled garden, where artists and craftsmen will be in residence.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Well, it's rather good, actually — allowing you to water your garden remotely from your sun lounger on holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
No: using sprinklers or hosepipes to water the garden, including vegetables, lawns and pots, or to wash your car.
Times, Sunday Times
For the greatest efficiency, try to water the garden only during the cool of the evening or early morning.
Times, Sunday Times
During that time you won't be able to water your garden, fill a paddling pool or clean any outdoor surfaces using your hosepipe.
The Sun
Also, we hoped for a place where the heavens might water the garden.
Times, Sunday Times
Visit the woodland garden, see the many sculptures, and help to support the project by buying an alder or birch tree from the nursery.
Times, Sunday Times
Stay here and have your own secluded, four-acre subtropical woodland garden to explore, created by the artist-owner who lives next door.
Times, Sunday Times
The main house and grounds are separate from the woodland garden where you'll walk, but a ticket combining both costs 15/13.50.
Times, Sunday Times
The grounds include a woodland garden with fast-flowing rills.
Times, Sunday Times
On this side, they have planted a shady woodland garden.
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Translations:
Chinese: 花园
Japanese: 庭
- coastal fringe
- coastal habitat
- coastal hamlet
- coastal highway
- coastal inlet
- coastal lagoon
- coastal land
- coastal landscape
- coastal location
- coastal marsh
- coastal mountains
- coastal patrol
- coastal pollution
- coastal port
- coastal property
- coastal province
- coastal rainforest
- coastal region
- coastal resident
- coastal resort
- coastal road
- coastal route
- coastal scenery
- coastal settlement
- coastal shelf