garden party
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- noun
- /ˈɡɑrdən ˈpɑrti/
- The garden party featured live music, delicious refreshments, and beautiful decorations.
- summer garden party
- throw a garden party
- annual garden party
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Examples
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All three moderators get invited to the Queen's garden party in Holyrood every summer.
Blog text (31) -
The nicest wedding I ever attended started out as a garden party on a sunny summer day.
Blog text (1) -
But this is exactly how our real garden party went, so who knows?
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When you grow up, who knows, one day you might be invited to a royal garden party.
Fiction book (2001) -
We were introduced at a garden party.
Fiction book (1998) -
Today I finally had a garden party.
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Look, Jade, if you're not busy, my father's giving a garden party at the estate on Sunday and I'd love you to come.
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The Queen's garden party.
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That weekend, Hope was to help her closest friend, Mary Jane Lockyear, host a garden party to raise funds for Donaldina Cameron's Chinese Presbyterian Mission Home.
Fiction book (1997) -
She moved faster than most... and enjoyed to the full the fruits of each and every conquest... whether it was at Brooklyn's racetrack... or at a garden party on the lawns of Buckingham Palace.
Synonyms
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An event where people meet to celebrate, eat, and have fun
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A meal people eat outdoors for pleasure
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A party on a grass area where people have drinks and play games
A fancy outdoor party in a garden or country house with music and food
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a social gathering held outdoors in a garden' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'garden' (an outdoor plot) with 'party' (a social occasion). This noun-noun composition follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase garden party comes from the simple image of a garden and a party, where people meet outdoors among flowers for tea, music and conversation. So, it means 'a social gathering held outdoors'.