sunken garden
- noun
- /ˈsʌŋkən ˈɡɑrdən/
:
jardín hundido
Examples
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I found out why the next evening when we talked in the sunken garden, out near the lily pool.
Fiction book (1995) -
So why was I all alone on a hot Friday afternoon, out in the sunken garden, sitting on the stone bench, observing the pool?
Fiction book (1995) -
At the far end of the sunken garden, there is a stone bench with scrolled arms.
Fiction book (1995) -
A sunken garden laid out in a rectangle, slightly shorter and narrower than a tennis court.
Fiction book (1995) -
At Isa Khan's Tomb in Delhi, archaeologists have revealed the oldest known Mughal "sunken garden," or a garden planted below the level of walkways and the tomb building.
Academic text (2011) -
The sunken garden was filled with vibrant flowers and a small pond.
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In the center of the sunken garden, a stone path leads to a charming gazebo.
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Visitors often admire the tranquility of the sunken garden nestled between tall trees.
How Deep
740
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a garden constructed lower than the surrounding ground' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'sunken' (lower than its surroundings) with 'garden' (an outdoor plot for plants). This adjective + noun composition is a regular, compositional pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Sunken garden names a garden that is sunken below the ground around it. Imagine a green space set in a shallow bowl with low walls or steps that keeps it quiet and makes the plants easy to see. So the phrase means 'a garden made lower than the land around it'.