bear garden
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.44 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A public place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting.
Example Sentences
- "[…] Indeed, the education of your youth is every way preposterous; you waste at school years in improving talents, without having ever spent an hour in discovering them; one promiscuous line of instruction is followed, without regard to genius, capacity, or probable situation in the commonwealth. From this bear-garden of the pedagogue, a raw, unprincipled boy is turned loose upon the world to travel; […]"
- "1867-1868, Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy He sees the rich, the aristocratic class, in occupation of the executive government, and so if he is of us, stopped from making Hyde Park a bear-garden or the streets."
- ""Top of the Alps is becomin' a perfect bear-garden," said he."