Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

truck garden

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English

Syllables: truck- -gar-den
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.

American usage

Example Sentences

"As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted."
"it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden."

Etymology

From truck (“to trade”).

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

truck gardens (plural)

Phrases

truck farm

Frequently Paired Words

truck farm

Synonyms

market garden truck farm

Questions

What does truck garden mean?: Synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.
Where does truck garden come from?: From truck (“to trade”).

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