(gär′dən) noun
1. A place for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, or small plants.
2. Hence, any fertile or highly cultivated territory.
3. A piece of ground, commonly with ornamental plants or trees, used as a place of public resort: a botanical garden.
—adjective
1. Grown, or capable of being grown in a garden; hence, hardy.
2. Ordinary; common.
3. Like a garden; ornamental: garden spot of the world.
—v.t. To cultivate as a garden.
—v.i. To till or work in a garden. [<AF gardin <Gmc.]

(gär′dən), Mary,
1877–1967, U.S. operatic soprano.