garden
part of speech
noun (garden, gardens); verb (garden, gardens, gardened, gardening)
meaning for a pupil
1) A garden is a piece of land where people grow flowers, fruit or vegetables. tree →
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 →
3) Gardens are also a public park with plants, like botanical gardens. tree →
4) To garden is to work in a garden, planting, weeding and watering. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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
- 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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his precious fruits. (Writings SNG.4.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden. (Writings JOB.8.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. (Writings SNG.4.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- The garden has 6 rows of 8 tomato plants. tree →
- A garden is 10 m long and 4 m wide. tree →
- She picked 25 carrots from her garden. tree →
- How much fence goes around the garden? tree →
- Our school has a garden where we grow beans. tree →
- Grandpa loves gardening on Saturdays. tree →
- The kids played football in the back garden. tree →
- We visited the botanic gardens and saw huge cactuses. tree →
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 the corpora
- And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.
- And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.
- And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;
- And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «garden» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.