Engels Woord van de dag

garden

tuin

Definities

Engels > Nederlands

garden

1. tuin, gaard

Engels > Engels

garden

1. n. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

a vegetable garden a flower garden

2. n. (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.

3. n. (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

a garden party; a garden spade; a garden path

4. n. The grounds at the front or back of a house.

This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden. We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden. Our garden is overgrown with weeds.

5. n. (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.

6. n. (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

7. v. (intransitive, chiefly North America) to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.

8. v. (intransitive, cricket) of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

9. adj. Common, ordinary, domesticated.

Nederlands > Engels

tuin

1. n-m. A garden, yard.

2. n-m. (regional, dated) An enclosure, fence or hedge.