Other forms: gardens, gardening
A garden is the green space by a house where flowers and vegetables grow. The back garden, do the garden, a garden gate.
In British use a garden is the whole outdoor space including the lawn; in American use that is a yard, and garden means the planted bed within it. That difference causes real confusion. Note lead somebody up the garden path, meaning to mislead; everything in the garden is rosy; and that garden and yard are the same Germanic word arriving twice.
1noungardenThe green space by a house where plants grow.
“The children played in the garden while their parents had lunch on the terrace.”
2verbworkTo work in such a space.
“My grandmother loves to garden, and she grows her own tomatoes.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
garden is an outdoor space.
Also accepted in games: yard
Anglo-Norman gardin comes from Frankish gardo, an enclosure, from Proto-Germanic gardaz. The inherited English form of the same word is yard.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰerdʰ-
Proto-Germanic
*gardô — enclosure, garden, house
Frankish
*gardō
Anglo-Norman
gardin
Middle English
gardyn
English, today
garden
Built from
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish gardō, 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). a doublet of jardin and of a doublet of garth. wyrttūn. 2 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, Czech zahrada, Polish ogród, Russian огоро́д.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA