garden

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The drawing-room looked on to the garden, and at the end of the garden was a door which opened into another street Through this door had come Colonel Quaritch accompanied by Mr. Quest, the former with his gun under his arm.

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  1. noun A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit.
  2. noun 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. noun A yard or lawn.

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  • So which fruits in the garden were they supposed to eat and some some how they must be related to the fruit in the middle of the garden (which U said it was SEX)? —  Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums
  • Among the best choices for the garden are the hybrids between the Asian species (H. x intermedia). —  Anderson Independent Mail Stories
  • Plans for the garden were the brainchild of a resident's family member, Marc Diemer, whose mother was so excited by the idea that, in 2008, Diemer donated a fence to contain the garden area so participants would be safe while working outside. —  news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com
  • He reckoned that the garden was always under surveillance, and that a man getting over a wall would have little chance of reaching the street, unless he managed to distract the attention of watchers. —  The Man Who Lost Himself
  • Some other night When mellow shines the moon, oh Perhaps we'll dream the dream again And may that night come soon, oh THE MAGIC FLOWER Once upon a time there lived a wee woman whose bit of a garden was a delight to all eyes Such flowers as she had! —  The Story-teller
 

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forest ·  park ·  house ·  hall ·  field ·  flower ·  street ·  building ·  land ·  farm ·  valley ·  palace

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garden:   gardening ·  gardens
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  1. Middle English gardin, from Old North French, from gart, of Germanic origin; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English gardin, gardyn, later sometimes gardeyne, gardayne, from Old French gardin, also assibilated jardin, French jardin = Provencal gardi, jardi (= Spanish jardin = Portuguese jardim = Italian giardino, Middle Latin gardinum, gardinus, from Old French), from Old High German garto (genitive and dative gartin), Middle High German garte (genitive and dative garten), German garten = Old Saxon gardo = OFries. garda, a garden, = Gothic (Moesogothic) garda, a fold; the same, but with different suffix, as Gothic (Moesogothic) gards = Old High German gart = Anglo-Saxon geard, English yard, an inclosure: see yard and garth.
  2. from garden, n.
 

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