garden
Meanings
- An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
- Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
- The grounds at the front or back of a house.
- A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
- The twentieth Lenormand card.
- A cluster; a bunch.
- Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
- To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
- Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
- To smoke marijuana.
- Common, ordinary, domesticated.
- A surname.
- Covent Garden in London, England, or its theatre or market.
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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. Via PIE cognate with Bulgarian градина (gradina), Czech zahrada, Polish ogród, Russian огоро́д (ogoród). Compare typologically Latin hortus (a possible cognate via PIE); Ancient Greek περίβολος (períbolos), Proto-Iranian *paridayjah (whence Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos)).