gardenless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

garden +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

gardenless (not comparable)

  1. Without a garden.
    • 1913, Francis Wrigley Hirst, The Six Panics and Other Essays, page 243:
      I was disgusted the other day, in a prosperous district of the West Riding, where public-spirited men have erected libraries and institutes for the factory hands, to find that even new cottages are still, as a rule, gardenless or with only a tiny patch.
    • 2009, Time Out Barcelona, page 99:
      Predictably, however, developers made a travesty of Cerdà's plans and a concrete orchard of gardenless, fortress-like, six- or seven-storey blocks grew up instead.
    • 2010, Laurie Graham, Perfect Meringues:
      I'm talking this morning to Wanda Relphs from the charity, Bleak Midwinter. Wanda, tell us what Bleak Midwinter aims to do for the homeless and gardenless.

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