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garden party

garden party

8 2.3
An outdoor social event in a garden with food, drink, and music
  • noun
  • /ˈɡɑrdən ˈpɑrti/
translation icon : fiesta en el jardín
  • 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

  • All three moderators get invited to the Queen's garden party in Holyrood every summer.

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  • The nicest wedding I ever attended started out as a garden party on a sunny summer day.

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  • But this is exactly how our real garden party went, so who knows?

  • 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.

    Blog text (5)
  • 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.

  • The Queen's garden party.

  • 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

party
vsgarden party
1.0

An event where people meet to celebrate, eat, and have fun

is specifically an outdoor social event centered on conversation and refreshments
picnic
vsgarden party
244 1.0

A meal people eat outdoors for pleasure

focuses more on social conversation and entertainment than on a shared meal
lawn party
vsgarden party
1 2.4

A party on a grass area where people have drinks and play games

is held outdoors in a tended planting area focused on conversation and refreshments
fete champetre
vsgarden party
  • Archaic
9.9

A fancy outdoor party in a garden or country house with music and food

is a simpler, less formal outdoor social gathering for conversation and refreshments

How Formal

banquet
  • Formal
114 3.9
reception
167 3.3
garden party
8 2.3
picnic
244 1.0

Surface Forms

garden party singular

Morphology

garden + party

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'.