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English

Etymology

From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardo (“fenced-in yard, garden”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô, *gardaz, whence also inherited English yard.

The final -in derives either from the Frankish inflected form *gardin or is a Romance diminutive of *gard (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardinus).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gär?d?n, IPA^(key): /????dn?/
• (General American) enPR: gär?d?n, IPA^(key): /????d?n/, /-n?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n
• Hyphenation: gar?den

Noun

garden (plural gardens)

1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
   1. (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

   2. (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

      • The garden parties of pre-1914 were something to be remembered. Everyone was dressed up to the nines, high-heeled shoes, muslin frocks with blue sashes, large leghorn hats with drooping roses. There were lovely ices […] with every kind of cream cake, of sandwich, of éclair, and peaches, muscat grapes, and nectarines.

2. (Britain, Ireland) The grounds at the front or back of a house.

3. (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
4. (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
   • 1965: Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, page 11 (Morrow)

     Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.

5. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
   • 1995, Lee Tyler, Biblical Sexual Morality and What About Pornography? viewed at etext.org on 9 May 2006

     Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits.

   • N.B. From a commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16, which was written in Hebrew c. 950 BC; book footnotes are shown here within brackets. Many scholars disagree with this Biblical interpretation, which is included as evidence of the word's usage in 1995 rather than its intended meaning in 950 BC.
   • c. 2004, Hair Care Down There, Inc, The History of Hair Removal viewed at haircaredownthere.com on 9 May 2006 -

     Primping and pruning the secret garden might seem like a totally 21st century concept, but the fact is women have gotten into below-the-belt grooming since before the Bronze Age.

Synonyms

• (decorative place outside):
• (gardens with public access): park, public gardens
• (grounds at the front or back of a house): yard (US, Canada, Australia)
• (the pubic hair): See pubic hair

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: dyari
• ? Nafaanra: yaadi

Translations

Verb

garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)

1. (intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

   Synonym: make garden (dated)

   I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.

2. (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

   Synonym: farm

Derived terms

• gardener
• gardening

Translations

Adjective

garden (not comparable)

1. Common, ordinary, domesticated.

Anagrams

• Gander, danger, gander, grande, graned, nadger, ranged

Cebuano

Etymology

From English garden.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gar?den

Noun

garden

1. a garden

Verb

garden

1. to make or turn into a garden

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:garden.

Danish

Noun

garden c

1. definite singular of garde

Galician

Verb

garden

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of gardar

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Northern French gardin.

Noun

garden

1. Alternative form of gardyn

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman guardein.

Noun

garden

1. Alternative form of gardein

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

garden m

1. definite singular of gard
2. definite singular of garde

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????rn?/

Noun

garden m

1. definite singular of gard

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²??rdn?/

Noun

garden m

1. definite singular of garde

English

Noun

garde (plural gardes)

1. Obsolete form of guard.

Verb

garde (third-person singular simple present gardes, present participle garding, simple past and past participle garded)

1. Obsolete form of guard.

Anagrams

• Adger, Degar, EDGAR, Edgar, Gerda, grade, radge, raged

Czech

Noun

garde n

1. A chaperon, chaperone.

Related terms

• gardedáma f

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garde.

Noun

garde c (singular definite garden, plural indefinite garder)

1. A guard.

Inflection

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r.d?/
• Hyphenation: gar?de
• Rhymes: -?rd?

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gaerde.

Noun

garde f (plural gardes or garden)

1. A whisk, a beater.
2. A rod, penal implement.

   Synonym: roede

Etymology 2

Borrowe from Middle French garde, from Old French garde, from Proto-Germanic [Term?].

Noun

garde f (plural gardes or garden)

1. A guard (body of guards), especially an elite unit.

   Synonym: wacht

2. A guardsman, member of such body.

   Synonym: gardist, wachter

Derived terms

• gardebataljon
• gardecompagnie
• gardejager
• gardekorps
• gardesoldaat
• garderegiment
• lijfgarde

Related terms

• en garde

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d/

Etymology 1

From Old French guarde, from the verb guarder (or less likely directly from Frankish *warda), from Frankish *ward?n (“to protect”). Compare Italian guardia, Spanish guarda. Cognate with English ward.

Noun

garde m or f (plural gardes)

1. A watch, guard.

Derived terms

• chien de garde
• de garde
• garde à vue
• garde du corps
• mettre en garde
• mise en garde
• page de garde
• prendre garde
• sur ses gardes

Etymology 2

Deverbal of garder.

Noun

garde f (plural gardes)

1. A handle (of a weapon).
2. A protection (act of protecting).

Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

garde

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of garder
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of garder
3. second-person singular imperative of garder

Derived terms

• garde-fou
• garde-manger

Further reading

• “garde” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Edgar
• égard

Galician

Verb

garde

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of gardar

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French guarde, from guarder. Doublet of ward.

Alternative forms

• gard, guarde

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ard(?)/, /??a?rd(?)/

Noun

garde (plural gardes)

1. guardianship, safeguarding, covering, authority
2. (rare) A company of guardians or wardens.
3. (rare) A portion of a set of armour.

Related terms

• gardein
• savegard

Descendants

• English: guard
• Scots: gaird

References

• “gard(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.

Etymology 2

Noun

garde

1. Alternative form of garth

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French guarde, of Germanic origins.

Noun

garde f (plural gardes)

1. (Jersey) A guard.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

garde

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of garder
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of garder
3. second-person singular imperative of garder