How do you use the word "garden" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "garden": Her garden is a work of art. You've been properly led up the garden path.

Garden Meaning

/ˈɡɑː.d(ə)n/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

nounAn outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes., Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

Sentence Examples

Her garden is a work of art.

You've been properly led up the garden path.

I think I'll do some digging in the garden.

CEFR Practice Quiz

She planted flowers and vegetables in her small ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She spent every weekend working in her beautiful ____, planting flowers and tending to her vegetable patch.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin and of garth. Displaced Old English wyrttūn. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu. Via PIE cognate with Bulgarian градина (gradina), Czech zahrada, Polish ogród, Russian огоро́д (ogoród). Compare typologically Latin hortus (a possible cognate via PIE); Ancient Greek περίβολος (períbolos), Proto-Iranian *paridayjah (whence Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…] I ſuppoſe the North ſide of the water to be the beſt ſide for your garden, that it may haue the comfort of the South Sunne to lye vpon it and face it, and the dwelling houſe to bee aboue it, to defend the cold windes and froſts both from your herbes, and flowers, and early fruits." — 1629, John Parkinson, “The Situation of a Garden of Pleasure, with the Nature of Soyles, and How to Amend the Defects that are in Many Sorts of Situations and Grounds”, in Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. […], London: […] Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng […], →OCLC, page 1:

"Maybe, I don't really wanna know / How your garden grows / 'Cause I just wanna fly" — 1994, Noel Gallagher, “Live Forever”, in Definitely Maybe, performed by Oasis:

"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." — 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 5, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

"Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family." — 1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11:

"In that case, the thing was mere plain or garden robbery." — 1925, Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys:

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