different between garden vs parterre

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French parterre (“on the ground”), from par (“on”) + terre (“ground”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p????t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: par?terre

Noun

parterre (plural parterres)

1. (horticulture) A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.
2. (horticulture) A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.
3. (theater) A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.

   • That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.

   1. The part of the ground-floor section nearest the orchestra and the stage; the stalls.
   2. (Britain) The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit.
4. (theater, by extension) That part of a theater audience seated in the parterre, sometimes regarded as belonging to a lower social class.
5. (US, New York) An apartment balcony.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French parterre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r?t??.r?/
• Hyphenation: par?ter?re
• Rhymes: -??r?

Noun

parterre m or n (plural parterres or parterren)

1. ground floor

   Synonym: begane grond

2. parterre, flowerbed
3. parterre, level garden with flowerbeds

Derived terms

• parterretrap

French

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?]. Equivalent to par +? terre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.t??/
• Hyphenation: par?terre

Noun

parterre m (plural parterres)

1. part of a garden that is divided into flowerbeds
2. the part of a theater between the stalls and the rear
   1. (by extension) the members of a theater audience seated in the parterre
   2. (by analogy) an assembly or group of people

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French parterre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa??tere/, [pa??t?e.re]

Noun

parterre m (plural parterres)

1. Flowerbed