Garden
nounA piece of ground, often beside a house, used for growing flowers, vegetables, or other plants.
How to spell garden
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce garden
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does garden mean?
- nounA piece of ground, often beside a house, used for growing flowers, vegetables, or other plants.
- verbTo cultivate or tend plants in a garden.
Garden in a sentence
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noun
She spent the whole weekend weeding the garden behind the house.
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verb
He likes to garden early in the morning before the heat sets in.
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noun
The new flat has no balcony and no garden at all.
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verb
Learning to garden well takes patience and a few failed seasons.
Where does garden come from?
Language of origin: French
Garden came into English in the early 1300s from the Old North French word gardin, a regional variant of the Old French jardin meaning an enclosed plot for growing plants. The Frankish and Germanic root behind it was gardo or garda, meaning an enclosure or fenced piece of ground, and that same ancient sense of 'a yard with a fence around it' connects garden directly to the plain English word 'yard'. Because the protected, walled-in plot was the defining idea, the word always carried the notion of cultivated land set apart from the wild. By the late Middle Ages it had settled into its familiar meaning of a place for growing flowers, herbs, fruit, and vegetables. The spelling stayed close to the Norman French form, which is why we keep the soft-looking 'gard' opening even though we pronounce it with a hard g.
How the word is built
- gard (enclosure, yard)
- -en (Old North French noun ending)
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