Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gardenless en · ADJ

Etymology

From garden + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a garden.
    • Predictably, however, developers made a travesty of Cerdà's plans and a concrete orchard of gardenless, fortress-like, six- or seven-storey blocks grew up instead. 2009, Time Out Barcelona, page 99:
    • I'm talking this morning to Wanda Relphs from the charity, Bleak Midwinter. Wanda, tell us what Bleak Midwinter aims to do for the homeless and gardenless. 2010, Laurie Graham, Perfect Meringues:
    • I was disgusted the other day, in a prosperous district of the West Riding, where public-spirited men have erected libraries and institutes for the factory hands, to find that even new cottages are still, as a rule, gardenless or with only a tiny patch. 1913, Francis Wrigley Hirst, The Six Panics and Other Essays, page 243: