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GARDEN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plot of ground where plants are cultivated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("garden" is a kind of...):

patch; plot; plot of ground; plot of land (a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garden"):

topiary (a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals)

tea garden (a public garden where tea is served)

sunken garden (a garden set below the level of the ground surrounding it)

rose garden (a garden for growing roses)

roof garden (a garden on a flat roof of a building)

rock garden; rockery (a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants)

pot farm (a plot of ground where marijuana is grown and harvested (often hidden in a national forest))

market garden (a garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing)

landscaping (a garden laid out for esthetic effect)

kitchen garden; vegetable garden; vegetable patch (a small garden where vegetables are grown)

hop field; hop garden (a garden where hops are grown)

herb garden (a garden for growing herbs)

grove; orchard; plantation; woodlet (garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth)

formal garden (a garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs)

flower garden (a garden featuring flowering plants)

Instance hyponyms:

Hanging Gardens of Babylon (a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC)

Derivation:

garden (work in the garden)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A yard or lawn adjoining a house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("garden" is a kind of...):

curtilage; grounds; yard (the enclosed land around a house or other building)

Meronyms (parts of "garden"):

patio; terrace (usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence)

Derivation:

garden (work in the garden)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("garden" is a kind of...):

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Derivation:

garden (work in the garden)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The usual or familiar type

Example:

it is a common or garden sparrow

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

familiar (within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work in the garden

Example:

My hobby is gardening

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "garden" is one way to...):

tend (have care of or look after)

Domain category:

gardening; horticulture (the cultivation of plants)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "garden"):

landscape (do landscape gardening)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

garden (a plot of ground where plants are cultivated)

garden (a yard or lawn adjoining a house)

garden (the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden)

gardener (someone who takes care of a garden)

gardener (someone employed to work in a garden)

gardening (the cultivation of plants)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Also called garden heliotrope, garden valerian, Indian valerian, Mexican valerian, valerian, Valeriana officinalis, and Valerianae radix.

(Pacific valerian, NCI Dictionary)

The man ruddy and yellow-haired, stood leaning upon the spade wherewith he had been at work upon the garden patch.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is but a small place, with an ivied church, a fine vicarage, and a row of red-brick cottages each in its own little garden.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also called garden heliotrope, garden valerian, Mexican valerian, Pacific valerian, valerian, Valeriana officinalis, and Valerianae radix.

(Indian valerian, NCI Dictionary)

Also called garden heliotrope, Indian valerian, Mexican valerian, Pacific valerian, valerian, Valeriana officinalis, and Valerianae radix.

(Garden valerian, NCI Dictionary)

I was hurried through the hall and into the vehicle, again obtaining that momentary glimpse of trees and a garden.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The good woman, with much difficulty, at last perceived what I would be at, and taking me up again in her hand, walked into the garden, where she set me down.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Greenspace and gardens were associated with reductions in asthma hospitalisation at lower pollutant levels, but not in the most polluted urban areas.

(Asthma Attacks Reduced in Tree-Lined Urban Neighborhoods, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Does gardening make you breathless?

(AQ20 - Gardening Make You Breathless, NCI Thesaurus)