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garden

noun
garden pronunciation English ˈɡɑːdn garden pronunciation American ˈɡɑːrdn
 
1 [countable] (British English) (North American English yard) a piece of land next to or around your house where you can grow flowers, fruit, vegetables, etc, usually with a lawn (= an area of grass)a front/back gardenchildren playing in the gardengarden flowers/plantsout in the gardena rose garden (= where only roses are grown) see also kitchen garden, market garden, rock garden, roof garden2 [countable] (North American English) an area in a yard where you grow flowers or plants3 [countable] (usually gardens) a public parkthe botanical gardens in Edinburgh see also zoological garden4 gardens [singular] (abbr. Gdns) (British English) used in the name of streets39 Belvoir Gardens
Idioms

everything in the garden is rosy

(British English, saying) everything is fine
more at common or garden at common adjective, lead somebody up/down the garden path at lead1 verb