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potager

potager

1 8.9
A garden where people grow vegetables and herbs for cooking
  • noun
  • /ˈpɒtədʒər/
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  • The potager beside the kitchen provides us with fresh vegetables every day.
  • potager garden
  • potager vegetables

Examples

  • She enjoys spending her afternoons tending to the potager where she grows herbs and vegetables.

  • It's a flower garden, not a potager.

    Silk (2007)

  • The potager is pretty shady, so most of the crops are in the large kitchen garden.

    Blog text (25)

  • I just finished planting the potager yesterday with eight varieties of lettuce, spinach, kale, and Swiss chard.

    Blog text (25)

  • Denver: Potager, Beatrice & Woodsley, Linger, Panzano, Bistro

    Blog text (23)

  • I just finished planting my potager with tomatoes, carrots, and fresh herbs.

Synonyms

kitchen garden
vspotager
  • UK
1 2.6

A small area near a house where people grow vegetables and herbs for the home

is a garden for household edible plants without stressing proximity or fruit

Antonyms

wasteland
58 4.9

A large empty area of land with no plants or people

How Productive

farm
∞ 1.0
potager
1 8.9
vegetable patch
  • UK
2 2.0
herb garden
5 2.0

Surface Forms

potager singular
potagers plural

Etymology

Potager comes from the French word potage ('soup'), which is connected to pot ('pot'). A potager was the garden that grew the vegetables and herbs you would put in a pot to make soup, so today a potager is a kitchen garden for fresh vegetables and herbs.