Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - garden

(gardens, gardening, gardened) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. In British English, a garden is a piece of land next to a house, with flowers, vegetables, other plants, and often grass. In American English, the usual word is yard, and a garden refers only to land which is used for growing flowers and vegetables. ...the most beautiful garden on Earth. N-COUNT 2. If you garden, you do work in your garden such as weeding or planting. Jim gardened at the homes of friends on weekends. VERB: V • gardening I have taken up gardening again. N-UNCOUNT 3. Gardens are places like a park that have areas of plants, trees, and grass, and that people can visit and walk around. The Gardens are open from 10.30am until 5pm. ...Kensington Gardens. N-PLURAL 4. Gardens is sometimes used as part of the name of a street. He lives at 9, Acacia Gardens. N-IN-NAMES