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My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.
Clive Davis

Meaning of "garden-variety" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GARDEN-VARIETY

garden-variety  [ˈɡɑːdənvəraɪɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GARDEN-VARIETY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Garden-Variety is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GARDEN-VARIETY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of garden-variety in the English dictionary

The definition of garden-variety in the dictionary is ordinary.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GARDEN-VARIETY


antianxiety
ˌæntɪæŋˈzaɪɪtɪ
anxiety
æŋˈzaɪɪtɪ
aureity
ɔːˈreɪɪtɪ
dubiety
djuːˈbaɪɪtɪ
extemporaneity
ɪksˌtɛmpərəˈneɪɪtɪ
gaseity
ɡəˈseɪɪtɪ
gayety
ˈɡeɪɪtɪ
impiety
ɪmˈpaɪɪtɪ
impropriety
ˌɪmprəˈpraɪɪtɪ
inebriety
ˌɪnɪˈbraɪɪtɪ
insatiety
ˌɪnsəˈtaɪɪtɪ
insobriety
ˌɪnsəʊˈbraɪɪtɪ
laity
ˈleɪɪtɪ
moiety
ˈmɔɪɪtɪ
nimiety
nɪˈmaɪɪtɪ
overanxiety
ˌəʊvəræŋˈzaɪɪtɪ
piety
ˈpaɪɪtɪ
satiety
səˈtaɪɪtɪ
ubiety
juːˈbaɪɪtɪ
variety
vəˈraɪɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GARDEN-VARIETY

garden rubbish
garden seat
garden shears
garden snail
Garden State
garden strawberry
garden suburb
garden tiger
garden tools
garden wall
garden warbler
garden-like
gardener
gardenful
gardenia
gardening
gardening leave
gardening tools
gardenless
gardens

WORDS THAT END LIKE GARDEN-VARIETY

benefit society
Big Society
building society
civil society
consumer society
contrariety
ebriety
grape variety
high society
honor society
humane society
Law Society
notoriety
propriety
Royal Society
secret society
sobriety
society
subcontrariety
subvariety

Synonyms and antonyms of garden-variety in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «garden-variety» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GARDEN-VARIETY

Find out the translation of garden-variety to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of garden-variety from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «garden-variety» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

花园式的各种
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

jardín - variedad
570 millions of speakers

English

garden-variety
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बगीचे किस्म
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حديقة متنوعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сад - разнообразие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

jardim-variedade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাগান-বিভিন্ন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

jardin - variété
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pelbagai taman
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Garten-Sorte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ありふれた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흔한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Taman-macem
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vườn nhiều
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கார்டன்-வெரைட்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बाग-विविधता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bahçe mahsulü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

giardino - varietà
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odmiana ogrodowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сад - різноманітність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

grădină - soi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κήπο - ποικιλία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tuin - verskeidenheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

garden - sort
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

garden -variety
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of garden-variety

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «GARDEN-VARIETY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word garden-variety.
1
Clive Davis
My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.
2
Patton Oswalt
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GARDEN-VARIETY»

Discover the use of garden-variety in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to garden-variety and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Progress in Understanding Reading: Scientific Foundations ...
In the phonological-core variable-difference model (Stanovich, 1988a), the term variable difference refers to the key performance contrasts between the garden- variety and the dyslexic poor reader. The cognitive status of the garden-variety ...
Keith E. Stanovich, 2000
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The Bonsai Workshop
Herb Gustafson is one of the world's leading authorities on bonsai growing. In Bonsai Workshop, he provides a step-by-step guide to dwarfing a tree, extensively illustrated with colour photographs and line drawings.
Herb L. Gustafson, 1996
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Phonological Skills and Learning to Read
As "garden variety poor readers" are behind in everything, including reading, they should not show any particular phonological deficits. We should note that these are not the children that we have been talking about so far in this chapter.
Usha Goswami, Peter Bryant, 1990
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Force and Fear
"GARDEN- VARIETY" OFFENDERS The term "garden-variety" or "cafeteria-style" offender is meant to reflect the fact that most criminals have committed a variety of offences. These offenders engage frequently, but perhaps sporadically, ...
Frederick John Desroches, 2002
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Learning Disabilities: Contemporary Viewpoints
As I mentioned earlier, all of the youngsters were separated into three different reader categories: “good” readers; “dyslexic” poor readers; and “garden-variety” poor readers. Each of these reader groups was identified in the following manner : ...
Brian J. Cratty, Richard L. Goldman, 2005
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Pathway to Nirvana: A How-to Book on How to Achieve Extreme ...
family. While getting married, having kids, raising a family, and buying a house are all good things in and of themselves, there is a serious problem with this picture, and the problem is with the garden variety Wog. While the garden variety Wog ...
Nirvana, 2013
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Reading Instruction that Works: The Case for Balanced Teaching
The use of the term “garden-variety” emphasizes that poor reading due to generally low intelligence is more prevalent than developmental dyslexia. For Caucasians, about 16% of the population has an IQ less than 85, with many such children ...
Michael Pressley, 2006
8
Emotion and the Arts
And yet I would respond that psychoanalysis of the sort that is popular among scholars in the humanities today is not really concerned with the garden-variety emotions— that is, the emotions marked in ordinary speech, like fear, awe, pity, ...
Mette Hjort Associate Professor of English Copenhagen Business School, Sue Laver Associate Professor of English Copenhagen Business School, 1997
9
Developmental Disorders: Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical ...
Compared to the data attained from the reading-level design, it has been more difficult to differentiate dyslexic subjects empirically in garden-variety designs. Although some garden-variety comparisons support the idea of qualitative difference ...
Stephen R. Hooper, George W. Hynd, Richard E. Mattison, 2013
10
Simon and Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Book #13: The ...
16 College World Series site 1 7 Carry on 18 Garden-variety hacks? 20 Bearing 2 1 Seeing stars 22 Girasol 23 Garden-variety equines? 25 City in W Ukraine 27 Petitioned 29 Flower that smells like pekoe 30 Delaware tribe 32 Cusp 34 ...
Eugene T. Maleska, John M. Samson, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GARDEN-VARIETY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term garden-variety is used in the context of the following news items.
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Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists | WIRED
But this is no garden-variety insulator. Not only does its insulating behavior arise from strong correlations between its electrons, but in the past ... «Wired, Jul 15»
2
Severe Threat Upgraded to "Moderate" - Major Outbreak Likely By …
Moderate Threat. When SPC upgrades the risk to "moderate" it's a signal that this isn't going to be just another garden-variety storm outbreak. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
3
'El Chapo' escapes again. What could it mean for US-Mexico …
... transformed the Sinaloa cartel from a garden-variety operation into Mexico's most notorious group, building links to suppliers and retailers in ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»
4
'Gotham' Comic-Con 2015 — Season 2 Spoilers | TVLine
... under the thumb of garden-variety thugs. “This season, it's the rise of the villains,” he previewed, as the titular city “starts to decline into chaos. «TVLine, Jul 15»
5
A beginner's guide to the Ashes: The game, the characters, the glory
I know what you're all thinking; it's a prize that sounds like a garden-variety sporting reward, like a ribbon or a novelty cheque, right? Well, it's so ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
6
More people were exposed by OPM than have signed up for …
... worry about than if the attacks were perpetrated by a criminal gang; China is unlikely to use the information for garden-variety financial fraud. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
7
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck divorce: Even famous people …
... makeup-free Garner with her kids in the park and those interviews about her garden-variety challenges of motherhood made it easy to relate. «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
8
How's Your Soul? Check Your Facebook Feed.
It's some of the every day, garden-variety pix and posts: a family at a T-ball game. A picnic with friends. Even a boring wedding shower. «Patheos, Jul 15»
9
Day Trippin': Celebrate magic of butterflies at Springfield festival this …
“It's not just any garden-variety magic act,” said Lisa Bakerink, president of Friends of the Garden, the nonprofit organization that sponsors the ... «Lakenewsonline.com, Jul 15»
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Slack's New Emoji&Based Reactions: Way, Way More Than A "Like …
But it's doing so with a new feature that has the potential to do quite a bit more to change how people use Slack than a garden-variety Like ... «Fast Company, Jul 15»

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