Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of a garden or of gardens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of a garden.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a
garden . - adverb Without a garden.
Etymologies
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Examples
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At a gardenless charter school called Cal Prep, where 92 percent of the students are black or Latino, where the focus is on academic achievement, and where test scores have been rising steadily.
Cultivating Failure 2010
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The farm was livestock-less, gardenless, and for all intents and purposes, we were living like your run-of-the-mill suburban family who just happened to be plopped onto a 65-acre chunk of land.
Maria Rodale: 5 Crazy Things That Occur When You Raise Backyard Chickens Maria Rodale 2011
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At a gardenless charter school called Cal Prep, where 92 percent of the students are black or Latino, where the focus is on academic achievement, and where test scores have been rising steadily.
Cultivating Failure 2010
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But things like the extermination of sparrows were countrywide, as is rapid development, and perhaps one could posit a sort of culture-wide version of solastalgia, as suddenly all of China is chirpless, gardenless and smogged over within the memory of older generations today not the young ones.
Chinese Solastalgia 2008
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Thanks June - I'm going to order some seeds, I think, just to see if I can grow some in one of my larger pots, gardenless as I am.
"A Strange and Fragrant Smell From Far Away" Lindy 2006
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Even in my current gardenless state, we still have herb plants growing by the kitchen in Flaujac.
JOIE DE VIVRE ROBERT ARBOR 2003
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If you love fresh carrots, have two rows and give some away to your gardenless friends like me.
JOIE DE VIVRE ROBERT ARBOR 2003
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I occasionally noticed one house which had extensive vegetable plantings in an otherwise gardenless community.
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It was hot and sultry inside the taxi even though the windows were open as it curled upward through this residential area with its ribbons of great gardenless apartment blocks that sat on small pads chewed out of the mountainside.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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It was hot and sultry inside the taxi even though the windows were open as it curled upward through this residential area with its ribbons of great gardenless apartment blocks that sat on small pads chewed out of the mountainside.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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