Definition

1. Noun:

   • A piece of land, often near a house, used for growing flowers, vegetables, fruit, or herbs, or as an area of grass and decorative plants: A cultivated area of ground for plants.
   • A public park or area of land with displays of plants: Often used in plural form to refer to a large public park, especially in British English.

2. Verb:

   • To cultivate or work in a garden: To engage in the activity of tending to a garden, such as planting, weeding, or watering.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • She grows tomatoes in her garden.
  • We had tea in the garden behind the house.
  • We visited the botanical gardens on Sunday.

• Verb:

  • My grandfather loves to garden every afternoon.
  • She gardened for hours, pulling weeds and planting new flowers.

Advanced Usage

• "Common or garden" (British English, informal): Ordinary, standard, or unremarkable.

  • It's just a common or garden sparrow, not a rare bird.

• "To lead someone up/down the garden path" (Idiom): To deceive or mislead someone.

  • He promised me a promotion, but I think he was leading me up the garden path.

Variants and Related Words

• Gardening (n): The activity of tending and cultivating a garden.

  • My hobby is gardening.

• Gardener (n): A person who tends or cultivates a garden.

  • They hired a gardener to maintain the large estate.

• Garden-variety (adj, chiefly North American): Ordinary, standard. Similar to "common or garden."

  • It was a garden-variety disagreement, nothing serious.

Synonyms

• Yard (n, especially US English): An area of ground next to a house, which may be a garden or lawn.
• Plot (n): A small piece of ground used for a specific purpose, such as a vegetable plot.
• Cultivate (v): To prepare and use land for crops or gardening.

Phrasal Verbs

(The target word 'garden' does not commonly form phrasal verbs. The related activity is typically expressed as "to garden" or "to do the gardening.")

Related Idioms

• Everything in the garden is rosy: Everything is satisfactory or going well.

  • Since he got the new job, everything in the garden is rosy.

• To garden (verb used figuratively): To cultivate or nurture something carefully.

  • She gardened her connections within the industry to find a new job. (This is a less common, metaphorical use.)

Noun

1. a yard or lawn adjoining a house
2. the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden
3. a plot of ground where plants are cultivated

Verb

1. work in the garden
   • My hobby is gardening