[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/garden/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [G](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/g/) / garden # garden noun (garden, gardens); verb (garden, gardens, gardened, gardening) «garden» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A garden is a piece of land where people grow flowers, fruit or vegetables. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#m1) 2. In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand the garden is also the grass area around a house; Americans often call it the yard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#m2) 3. Gardens are also a public park with plants, like botanical gardens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#m3) 4. To garden is to work in a garden, planting, weeding and watering. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#m4) ### In the lessons A place with rows of plants counted, or a rectangle with area and perimeter (fence). In science: plants need sun, water and soil; a school garden shows how seeds grow. In stories: secret gardens, gnomes. Phrases: «vegetable garden», «back garden», «flower garden», «gardening gloves». ### Examples - The garden has 6 rows of 8 tomato plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x1) - A garden is 10 m long and 4 m wide. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x2) - She picked 25 carrots from her garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x3) - How much fence goes around the garden? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x4) - Our school has a garden where we grow beans. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x5) - Grandpa loves gardening on Saturdays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x6) - The kids played football in the back garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x7) - We visited the botanic gardens and saw huge cactuses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/#x8) ### Note Rows × plants per row gives the total; length × width gives area; the fence around is the perimeter. Trap: fence means perimeter, soil or grass means area. Wear gloves when gardening and wash your hands after touching soil. ## In Jewish tradition The Garden of Eden was the first garden, planted by God for the first man, where he lived and worked. Later books use garden as a picture: a well-watered garden for beauty and love, and "a garden shut up" for a bride who is kept pure and special. **Interpretation.** Tradition reads Eden as a place of perfect closeness to God, and "Gan Eden" is also the name for the world of reward after death. It reads the Song of Songs as a love poem between God and Israel, with the garden as the place where they meet. ### Examples - And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; (Torah GEN.2.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/garden/#x1) - And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; (Torah GEN.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/garden/#x2) - And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed. (Torah GEN.2.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/garden/#x3) - Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his precious fruits. (Writings SNG.4.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/garden/#x4) - He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden. (Writings JOB.8.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/garden/#x5) - A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. (Writings SNG.4.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/garden/#x6) ### Note Rows × plants per row gives the total; length × width gives area; the fence around is the perimeter. Trap: fence means perimeter, soil or grass means area. Wear gloves when gardening and wash your hands after touching soil. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «garden» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garden/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«garden» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/garden.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «garden» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/garden/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«garden» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/garden.html) on Mova free.