kitchen garden
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈkɪtʃən ˈɡɑrdən/
- UK
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- My grandmother has a lovely kitchen garden where she grows fresh vegetables and herbs for our meals.
Examples
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We didn't find him in the kitchen garden out front either, planting seeds.
Academic text (2013) -
Seedling plants and kitchen gardens would have been most susceptible to leaf burn from overhead sprinkling.
Academic text (2000) -
This is the organic kitchen garden that we're in right now.
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Then, in the kitchen garden, she found two cats.
Fiction book (1994) -
Kitchen gardens, for instance, have become a "green" trend among restaurants.
Academic text (2009) -
Of course, I poured the dirty bath water on the thirsty plants in my kitchen garden.
Fiction book (1997) -
The potager is pretty shady, so most of the crops are in the large kitchen garden.
Blog text (25) -
In Barbizon, he lived in a rented house (he chose not to own property) and kept a kitchen garden.
Academic text (2007) -
Fried chicken, peas from the kitchen garden, mashed potatoes, gravy.
Fiction book (2000) -
John Brierley (1976, 1985) portrayed kitchen gardens in Grenada.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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1.0
An area of land next to a house where people grow flowers or vegetables
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1.0
A small piece of land where you grow vegetables to eat
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2.0
A small area in a garden where people grow vegetables
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8.9
A garden where people grow vegetables and herbs for cooking
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2.7
A small area where people grow vegetables for their own use
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9.9
A garden where people grow vegetables, fruit, or flowers
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Morphology
The meaning ('a garden for growing vegetables/herbs for household use') is directly and transparently derived from combining 'kitchen' (room for preparing food) with 'garden' (plot for cultivating plants), indicating a garden associated with the kitchen or household food production. This noun–noun composition is a common, literal pattern in English (and parallels exist in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Kitchen garden comes from the simple picture of a kitchen with a small garden right beside it where families grew vegetables and herbs to cook with. That's why the phrase means a garden kept 'for household use'.