flower garden
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈflaʊər ˈɡɑrdən/
:
jardín de flores
- In the flower garden by the stump.
And they spent money on things like flower gardens.
- And they spent money on things like flower gardens.
- And he called me up and we were talking and he told me about the flower gardens, the compost making, handmade miso, all these sort of things.
Examples
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I found this note for you in your flower garden, Philly.
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Walking around, he paid special attention to the walkways, the flower gardens, and the swimming pool.
Fiction book (1994) -
What happened to my flower garden?
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Let's put a flower garden outside the bedroom window.
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Rose walks down the steps to the flower garden, and Buddy follows.
Fiction book (1991) -
Somewhere close by, someone had a flower garden in a courtyard.
Fiction book (1999) -
Against the back fence stood a terraced flower garden, built long before by a previous owner.
Fiction book (1993) -
Sometimes, walking in the country, one comes upon an abandoned flower garden overtaken by wildflowers.
Fiction book (1990) -
The air seemed filled with an exotic aroma—the scent of a flower garden blooming in the dead of winter.
Fiction book (1992) -
The owner of the house has planted a flower garden in the front yard.
Synonyms
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A garden where people grow roses for decoration and display
How Big
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9
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14
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4
2.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'flower' (flowering plant) + 'garden' (plot for cultivating plants); together they denote a garden planted with flowers. This simple noun-noun compound follows transparent, cross-linguistic composition patterns and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Flower garden The noun flower garden comes from the simple image of a garden full of flowers planted to make a place look pretty. So, it means a garden grown mainly for flowers and for 'decoration'.