kitchen garden

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noun

a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.

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Origin of kitchen garden

First recorded in 1570–80

OTHER WORDS FROM kitchen garden

kitchen gardener, noun

Words nearby kitchen garden

kitchen, kitchenalia, kitchen cabinet, kitchener, kitchenette, kitchen garden, kitchen kaffir, kitchenmaid, kitchen match, kitchen midden, kitchen police

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How to use kitchen garden in a sentence

Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
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But they had not quit and here they now were as the Emerald Society Pipes and Drums came into the Garden.
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No sign of any North Koreans, just lots of common, or garden, internet cybercriminals.
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In another, they sit smiling inside their Los Angeles apartment at a messy kitchen table.
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Hitchcock is very proud of his kitchen; he's comfortable here.
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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
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But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Ten minutes later, veiled and cloaked, she stepped out alone into the garden.
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It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.
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Of course it is only the hardiest Ferns which can be expected to grow well in the town garden.
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British Dictionary definitions for kitchen garden

kitchen garden

noun

a garden where vegetables and sometimes also fruit are grown

Derived forms of kitchen garden

kitchen gardener, noun

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