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gar·den

(gär′dn)

a. A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit.

b. An arrangement of living material that is cultivated for food, as a fungus garden maintained by ants.

2. often gardens Grounds laid out with flowers, trees, and ornamental shrubs and used for recreation or display: public gardens; a botanical garden.

3. A yard or lawn.

4. A fertile, well-cultivated region.

a. An open-air establishment where refreshments are served.

b. A large public auditorium or arena.

v. gar·dened, gar·den·ing, gar·dens

v.tr.

1. To cultivate (a plot of ground) as a garden.

2. To furnish with a garden.

v.intr.

1. To plant or tend a garden.

2. To work as a gardener.

adj.

1. Of, suitable to, or used in a garden: garden tools; garden vegetables.

2. Provided with open areas and greenery: a garden community.

3. Garden-variety.

Idiom:

lead/take down the garden path

To mislead or deceive (another).

[Middle English gardin, from Old North French, from gart, of Germanic origin; see gher- in Indo-European roots.]

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gardening

(ˈɡɑːdənɪŋ)

(Horticulture)

a. the planning and cultivation of a garden

b. (as modifier): gardening gloves.

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Noun

gardening - the cultivation of plants

horticulture

farming, husbandry, agriculture - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

landscape gardening, landscaping - working as a landscape gardener

market gardening - the growing of vegetables or flowers for market

floriculture, flower gardening - the cultivation of flowering plants

garden - work in the garden; "My hobby is gardening"

landscape - do landscape gardening; "My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living"

landscape - embellish with plants; "Let's landscape the yard"

gardening

noun

Quotations
"Gardening is not a rational act" [Margaret Atwood Bluebeard's Egg]

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Translations

بَسْتَنَةبَسْتَنَه

zahradničení

havearbejdehave-

puutarhanhoito

vrtlarstvo

kertészkedés

garîyrkja

giardinaggio

庭仕事

정원 가꾸기

tuinieren

hage-hagearbeid hagebruk hagestell

ogrodnictwo

jardinagem

садоводство

záhradníčenie

vrtnarjenje

trädgårdsarbete

การทำสวน

bahçe işleribahçecilikbahçıvanlık

việc làm vườn

园艺

gardening

[ˈgɑːdnɪŋ] N (gen) → jardinería f; (= market gardening) → horticultura f
who does the gardening? → ¿quién es el jardinero?, ¿quién se encarga del jardín?

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gardening

[ˈgɑː^rd^ənɪŋ] n → jardinage m
Margaret loves gardening → Margaret aime le jardinage.
to do the gardening → faire du jardinagegarden of remembrance n → jardin m du souvenir (dans un cimetière)garden party [ˈgɑː^rd^ənpɑː^rti] n → garden-party fgarden path n
to lead sb up the garden path > → mener qn en bateau garden rubbish n → déchets mpl végétauxgarden suburb n → banlieue f résidentielle (aménagée par un paysagiste)garden tools npl → outils mpl de jardinagegarden-variety [ˈgɑː^rd^ənvəraɪɪti] adj (US) (= ordinary) → ordinaire

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gardening

n → Gartenarbeit f; she loves gardening → sie arbeitet gerne im Garten, sie gärtnert gerne; gardening tools → Gartengeräte pl

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gardening

[ˈgɑːdnɪŋ] n → giardinaggio

garden

(ˈgaːdn) noun

a piece of ground on which flowers, vegetables etc are grown. a small garden at the front of the house; (also adjective) a garden slug.

verb

to work in a garden, usually as a hobby. The old lady does not garden much.

ˈgardener noun

a person who works in, and looks after, a garden.

ˈgardening noun

the work of looking after a garden. Gardening is his favourite hobby; (also adjective) gardening clothes/tools.

ˈgardens noun singular or plural

a park, especially one where animals are kept or special trees or flowers are grown. zoological/botanical gardens.

garden party

a large (usually formal) party, held in the garden of a house etc.

gardening

→ بَسْتَنَة zahradničení havearbejde Gartenarbeit κηπουρική jardinería puutarhanhoito jardinage vrtlarstvo giardinaggio 庭仕事 정원 가꾸기 tuinieren hagearbeid ogrodnictwo jardinagem садоводство trädgårdsarbete การทำสวน bahçecilik việc làm vườn 园艺

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It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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May 10th.--I knew nothing whatever last year about gardening and this year know very little more, but I have dawnings of what may be done, and have at least made one great stride-- from ipomaea to tea-roses.

These beds were the only sign of any attempt at gardening to be seen (except a solitary crocus that came up all by itself each spring in the grass, not because it wanted to, but because it could not help it), and these I had sown with ipomaea, the whole eleven, having found a German gardening book, according to which ipomaea in vast quantities was the one thing needful to turn the most hideous desert into a paradise.

There is not a creature in all this part of the world who could in the least understand with what heart-beatings I am looking forward to the flowering of these roses, and not a German gardening book that does not relegate all tea-roses to hot-houses, imprisoning them for life, and depriving them for ever of the breath of God.

I don't think he knows much about gardening, but he can at least dig and water, and some of the things he sows come up, and some of the plants he plants grow, besides which he is the most unflaggingly industrious person I ever saw, and has the great merit of never appearing to take the faintest interest in what we do in the garden.

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So it was agreed that the monkey, Chee-Chee, was to do the cooking and mending; the dog was to sweep the floors; the duck was to dust and make the beds; the owl, Too-Too, was to keep the accounts, and the pig was to do the gardening. They made Polynesia, the parrot, housekeeper and laundress, because she was the oldest.

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What is clear, however, is that the ancient Persians were the earliest people to develop a tradition of planned gardening. Here, I am referring to the famed Persian gardens whose timeless charm and balance influenced other gardening traditions later on such as those of the Mughals and the Moors.

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