garden

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit.
2. n. Grounds laid out with flowers, trees, and ornamental shrubs and used for recreation or display. Often used in the plural: public gardens; a botanical garden.
3. n. A yard or lawn.
4. n. A fertile, well-cultivated region.
5. n. An open-air establishment where refreshments are served.
6. n. A large public auditorium or arena.
7. v. To cultivate (a plot of ground) as a garden.
8. v. To furnish with a garden.
9. v. To plant or tend a garden.
10. v. To work as a gardener.
11. adj. Of, suitable to, or used in a garden: garden tools; garden vegetables.
12. adj. Provided with open areas and greenery: a garden community.
13. adj. Garden-variety.
14. idiom. lead To mislead or deceive (another).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A plot of ground devoted to the cultivation of culinary vegetables, fruits, or flowering and ornamental plants. A garden for culinary herbs and roots for domestic use is called a kitchen-garden; one for flowers and shrubs, a flower-garden; and one for fruits, a fruit-garden. But these uses are sometimes blended.
2. n. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot.
3. Of, pertaining to, or produced in a garden: as, garden implements or plants.
4. To lay out or cultivate a garden; work in a garden, or in the manner of a gardener.
5. To cultivate as a garden: generally in the past participle.
6. Common; ordinary: as, a garden hen; garden proceedings.

Wiktionary

1. n. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food (vegetable garden) or ornamental purposes (flower garden).
2. n. Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
3. n. The grounds at the front or back of a house.
4. n. A cluster, a bunch.
5. n. Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
6. v. to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
7. v. of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
8. adj. Of, relating to, in, from or for use in a garden.
9. adj. Common, ordinary, domesticated.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
2. n. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
3. v. To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
4. v. To cultivate as a garden.

WordNet 3.0

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