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单词 garth
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Definition of garth in English:

garth

noun ɡɑːθɡɑrθ
British
  • 1An open space surrounded by cloisters.

    stone-vaulted passageways led into the cloister garth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the centre was a courtyard or open garth kept clear of structures, although sometimes arranged as a garden or burial ground.
    • The interior - a quadrangle of rooms giving off an overgrown cloister garth - had something of the air of Custer's Last Stand.
    • We found a stone wall-bench under an arcade of the cloister garth.
    • Real craftsmen embellished most of their garths.
    1. 1.1archaic A yard or garden.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Alastair Oswald, a landscape investigator for English Heritage, said the foundations of the former York Archbishop's Palace lay beneath the garth.
      • He wanted to ask Michael to describe the place, but at the same time his private vision of the old wooden building with its cobblestone courtyard and garth of blossoming apple trees was so clear in every detail that it could only be the truth.
      • A small court, yard, garth or piece of ground attached to a dwelling house, and forming one enclosure with it, or so regarded by the law; the area attached to and containing a dwelling house and its outbuildings.
      Synonyms
      piece of land, plot

Origin

Middle English (also, in early use, denoting a hollow): from Old Norse garthr; related to yard2.

Rhymes

Barth, bath, hearth, lath, path
 
 

Definition of garth in US English:

garth

nounɡärTHɡɑrθ
British
  • 1An open space surrounded by cloisters.

    stone-vaulted passageways led into the cloister garth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The interior - a quadrangle of rooms giving off an overgrown cloister garth - had something of the air of Custer's Last Stand.
    • Real craftsmen embellished most of their garths.
    • In the centre was a courtyard or open garth kept clear of structures, although sometimes arranged as a garden or burial ground.
    • We found a stone wall-bench under an arcade of the cloister garth.
    1. 1.1archaic A yard or garden.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Alastair Oswald, a landscape investigator for English Heritage, said the foundations of the former York Archbishop's Palace lay beneath the garth.
      • A small court, yard, garth or piece of ground attached to a dwelling house, and forming one enclosure with it, or so regarded by the law; the area attached to and containing a dwelling house and its outbuildings.
      • He wanted to ask Michael to describe the place, but at the same time his private vision of the old wooden building with its cobblestone courtyard and garth of blossoming apple trees was so clear in every detail that it could only be the truth.
      Synonyms
      piece of land, plot

Origin

Middle English (also, in early use, denoting a hollow): from Old Norse garthr; related to yard.

 
 
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