Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

garden hose

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables: gar-den hose
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of hose used for light residential applications such as watering lawns or gardens, or washing and rinsing passenger vehicles, etc.

Uncountable

noun

A length of hose as above, usually with a male connector on one end and a female connector on the other end, which can carry water from a hose bib (a water faucet or spigot usually located on an exterior wall of a house or other building) for use on a garden or lawn.

Countable

Example Sentences

"Mayor Scott also made himself useful, and, with a number of others, so manipulated a garden hose that the flames were prevented from spreading to the electric light buildings, which were only a few feet distant."
"I'm not sure what that reason was either, but he needed about 500 feet of garden hose. I said, "Okay, I'll trade you the garden hose for two pallets of sandbags. And I need them trucked over there to Qua Viet.""

Usage

Inflected Forms

garden hoses (plural) gardenhose (alternative) garden-hose (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

fire hose radiator hose

Synonyms

hosepipe

Questions

What does garden hose mean?: A type of hose used for light residential applications such as watering lawns or gardens, or washing and rinsing passenger vehicles, etc.

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