market garden


noun
  1. Chiefly British. truck farm.

  2. Market Garden, Military. the Allied code name for the unsuccessful invasion of Holland by British and American airborne and infantry forces on September 17, 1944.

Origin of market garden

1
First recorded in 1805–15

Other words from market garden

  • market gardener, noun
  • market gardening, noun

Words Nearby market garden

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How to use market garden in a sentence

  • In the subsequent years, I have become a beekeeper and a farmer of a small market garden.

  • I have promised the man a market-garden with a house on it close to the porter's lodge in the Rue Saint-Maur.

    Honorine | Honore de Balzac
  • Driven by an impulse of distaste for him and his house and market garden, I started to leave in secret.

    Tramping on Life | Harry Kemp
  • She was reading to him about the business of a market garden.

    Little Erik of Sweden | Madeline Brandeis
  • Now and then a family finds a forgotten acre, builds a shack, and starts a small independent market garden.

    Our Foreigners | Samuel P. Orth

British Dictionary definitions for market garden

market garden

noun
  1. mainly British an establishment where fruit and vegetables are grown for sale

Derived forms of market garden

  • market gardener, noun

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