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GARDEN
Definition of GARDEN
noun
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin and of garth. Displaced Old English wyrttūn. Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu. Via PIE cognate with Bulgarian градина (gradina), Czech zahrada, Polish ogród, Russian огоро́д (ogoród). Compare typologically Latin hortus (a possible cognate via PIE); Ancient Greek περίβολος (períbolos), Proto-Iranian *paridayjah (whence Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos)).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.4%
of traced words share this origin (969)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GARDEN · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Czech, Dutch, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Old English, Old French and 3 more.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GARDEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 5, 26 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GARDEN starts with G and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADEGNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GARDEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found GARDEN?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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