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market garden en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (UK) A garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.
   • Descending a narrow tree-lined lane the carriage passed into a leisurely winding road, bounded by market-gardens and the River Val. 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 5
   • Although the house is lonely it is on the electric tram route. You know the sort of market garden rurality that about a dozen miles out of London offers—alternate bricks and cabbages. 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

Forms

Coordinates

pleasure ground · vegetable garden · orchard · truck farm

Deriveds

market gardening · market gardener

Synonyms

truck garden

Translations (12)

la holerarium (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · es huerto (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · ca horta (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · de Gärtnerei (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · ga gairdín margaidh (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · fr maraichage (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · fi kauppapuutarha (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · pl gospodarstwo owocowo-warzywne (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · sv handelsträdgård (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · ga garraí margaidh (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · la olitōrius (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market) · nl tuinderij (a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market)