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" In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney."
Stephen Moyer

Meaning of "back garden" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF BACK GARDEN

bæk ˈɡɑːdən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BACK GARDEN

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Back garden is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BACK GARDEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Back garden

A back garden is a residential garden located at the rear of a property, on the other side of the house from the front garden. Such gardens have a special place in English suburban and gardening culture. A back garden arises when the main building divides the surrounding gardens into two. This happens especially in the high density housing of British cities and towns. A semi-detached house typical of the British suburbs of the 20th century will have front gardens which face the road and provide access. The back gardens in such cases will be more secluded and access will typically be via the dwelling or by a path around the side. If the housing is terraced, then no side path is possible and access may be provided by an alley which runs behind the rear of the terrace. While buildings opening directly onto a street may not have a front garden, most will have some space at the back, however small; the exception being back-to-back houses found in northern industrial towns in England such as Leeds, but now mostly demolished. A front garden is a formal and semi-public space and so subject to the constraints of convention and law.

Definition of back garden in the English dictionary

The definition of back garden in the dictionary is a garden at the rear of a house.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BACK GARDEN

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BACK GARDEN

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WORDS THAT END LIKE BACK GARDEN

beer garden · botanic garden · churchwarden · common or garden · cottage garden · Covent Garden · Dolly Varden · flower garden · herb garden · kitchen garden · landscaped garden · Leeuwarden · overburden · rock garden · roof garden · rose garden · sculpture garden · tea garden · vegetable garden · winter garden · zoological garden

Synonyms and antonyms of back garden in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «back garden» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BACK GARDEN

Find out the translation of back garden to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of back garden from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «back garden» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

后花园
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

jardín trasero
570 millions of speakers
en

English

back garden
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

पीछे बगीचे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحديقة الخلفية
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

сад за домом
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

quintal
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ফিরে বাগান
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

jardin à l´arrière
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

laman belakang
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Garten
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

裏庭
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

다시 정원
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Kebon bali
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vườn sau
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மீண்டும் தோட்டம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मागील उद्यान
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

arka bahçe
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

giardino sul retro
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

powrót ogród
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

сад за будинком
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

grădina din spate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πίσω κήπο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agtertuin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

trädgården
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bakhage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of back garden

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BACK GARDEN»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about back garden

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4 QUOTES WITH «BACK GARDEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word back garden.
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Courtney Barnett
I hate going anywhere. I'm really excited to travel and play all these different places, but if I had it my way, I would stay inside, maybe go to the back garden or walk around the corner to the shops. That's it.
2
Jennifer Ehle
What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?
3
Stephen Moyer
In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.
4
Ed Westwick
When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BACK GARDEN»

Discover the use of back garden in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to back garden and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Complete Back Garden Birdwatcher
This practical garden bird book is full of how-to tips and hints for getting the most out of garden birdwatching, as well as behaviour, feeding and ID. Throughout the book there are boxes detailing 'projects' for people to do.
Dominic Couzens, 2007
2
An Elephant in the Garden
As Michael Morpurgo writes in an author’s note, An Elephant in the Garden is inspired by historical truths, and by his admiration for elephants, “the noblest and wisest and most sensitive of all creatures.” Here is a story that brings ...
Michael Morpurgo, 2011
3
Lollipop and Grandpa's Back Garden Safari
Equipped with only sandwiches and imagination, Lollipop and Grandpa set off on an exciting expedition in the back garden where they encounter 'chimpan-trees', a 'hippo-potta-compost' and a 'croco-logus'.
Penelope Harper, 2012
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The villa gardener: comprising the choice of a suburban ...
The gardens of houses in a connected street, or rota, which are the smallest in this class, generally consist of two parts, divided from each other by the house, through which the back garden is entered. Both are necessarily of the same width as ...
John Claudius Loudon, Mrs. Loudon (Jane), 1850
5
The Villa Gardener: Comprising the Choice of a Suburban ...
The gardens of homes in a connected street, or row, which are the smallest in this class, generally consist of two parts, divided from each other by the house, through which the back garden is entered. Both are necessarily of the same width as ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1850
6
Chris Packham's Back Garden Nature Reserve
This book explains ways to attract wildlife to gardens and encourage it to stay there. The book guides challenges notions of 'weeds' and 'pests' and invites gardeners to think about the choices they make.
Chris Packham, 2010
7
The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years
A poplar, several wych elm Ulmus glabra cuttings, a willow cutting, and two seedlings of oak Quercus petraea were planted in the back garden in the early 1970s. The oaks did not survive, and all but one elm succumbed to Dutch elm disease, ...
Jennifer Owen, 1991
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Grow Your Own Groceries: How to Feed Your Family from Your ...
All in all, this is an excellent book for the novice gardener who wants to start growing their own groceries.' www.gardenaction.co.uk AUTHOR BIOG: Linda Gray has many years' gardening and housekeeping experience.
Linda Gray, 2009
9
The One I Knew the Best of All
There was such a tree at the bottom of the garden at Seedly. To the Small Person the garden seemed a mile long. There was a Front Garden and a Back Garden, and it was the Back Garden she liked best and which appeared to her large ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 2008
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Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries ...
The Back Garden. — Allowing thirty feet for the front garden and fifty for the house and back buildings, there will then remain a back garden of seventy feet in depth by one hundred in width, if there is no carriage road to a stable in the rear — if ...
Charles Mason Hovey, 1854

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BACK GARDEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term back garden is used in the context of the following news items.
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Greg Rutherford builds long jump pit in back garden
The British back garden. Barbecues, creosoted fences, decking, petunias, long jump pit... long jump pit? While some prepared for the summer ... «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
2
Do you know this object dug up from a back garden in Ashford?
MYSTERY surrounds this object dug up from a back garden in Ashford over the weekend. The metal object appears to be some kind of tool, but ... «Ashford Herald, Jul 15»
3
The grass roots party putting Yorkshire first
IN his back garden on a quietish lane in West Yorkshire, Richard Carter is building himself a new shed. A shallow, half dug hole marks the spot, ... «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
4
WWII garden plane crash and a loved cat
The 82-year-old, who now lives in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, was just a boy when the plane crashed in the back garden on his grandparents' ... «Wiltshire Times, Jul 15»
5
Video: This backflip in a Portlaoise back garden did not end well
Tommie sent us this video this evening of his attempted backflip into a paddling pool in his back garden in Portlaoise. Sorry for laughing, Tommie, but this is ... «JOE, Jul 15»
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Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder: 'A huge UFO appeared in …
MADCHESTER legend Shaun Ryder has told how he came face to face with a huge UFO hovering over his back garden. By Jon Austin Jon ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
Fury at plans for wedding venue in Banstead back garden
Mr T Vasudevan, of Croydon Lane, has applied to Reigate and Banstead Borough Council for permission to install a six-metre marquee, ... «Surrey Mirror, Jul 15»
8
So you want a hot tub or swimming pool in your back garden
Thrashing around in water in the sun from the comfort of your own back yard is a perennial dream, particularly vivid as temperatures soar this ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
9
Cricklewood open gardens that hark back to rural heritage of the area
This impression was doubtless helped by Elayne Coakes's back garden in Teignmouth Road, by standing on her terrace above a “meadow” ... «Ham&High, Jul 15»
10
TV presenter explains how to rejuvenate a neglected garden
As far as edibles go, she doesn't reckon anything will survive the winter elements. Tophill is terracing her back garden, which is on a very steep ... «Ham&High, Jun 15»
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