garden

garden
1 noun
1 (C) especially BrE a piece of land around or next to your house where there is usually lawn (=area of grass) and an area where you grow flowers, plants, or vegetables; yard (3) AmE: Grace is out in the garden mowing the lawn. | rose garden/herb garden etc (=where a particular type of plants is grown)
2 (C) AmE the part of a garden that has flowers and plants in it: We're thinking of planting a little garden in our yard.
3 gardens (plural) a large area of land where plants and flowers are grown so that the public can go and see them: the Botanic Gardens at Kew
4 Gardens BrE used in the name of streets: number 211 Roland Gardens
—see also: kitchen garden, market garden, lead sb up the garden path lead 1 (18) 2 verb (I) to work in a garden, keeping it clean, making plants grow etc — gardening noun (U): Since he's retired he's become very interested in gardening.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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