Forest vs. Garden — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Forest and Garden
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Forest
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological function.
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Garden
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature, as an ideal setting for social or solitary human life. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is control.
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Forest
A large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth
A pine forest
A large tract of forest
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Garden
A piece of ground adjoining a house, in which grass, flowers, and shrubs may be grown
Children love playing in the garden
A garden gate
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Forest
A large number or dense mass of vertical or tangled objects
A forest of high-rise apartments
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Garden
A large public hall
Madison Square Garden
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Forest
Cover (land) with forest; plant with trees
A forested hillside
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Garden
Cultivate or work in a garden
She wrote books, kept journals, and gardened
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Forest
A growth of trees and other plants covering a large area.
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Garden
A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit.
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Forest
A large number of objects bearing a similarity to such a growth, especially a dense collection of tall objects
A forest of skyscrapers.
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Garden
An arrangement of living material that is cultivated for food, as a fungus garden maintained by ants.
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Forest
A defined area of land formerly set aside in England as a royal hunting ground.
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Garden
Often gardens Grounds laid out with flowers, trees, and ornamental shrubs and used for recreation or display
Public gardens.
A botanical garden.
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Forest
To plant trees on or cover with trees.
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Garden
A yard or lawn.
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Forest
A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
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Garden
A fertile, well-cultivated region.
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Forest
Any dense collection or amount.
A forest of criticism
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Garden
An open-air establishment where refreshments are served.
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Forest
(historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
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Garden
A large public auditorium or arena.
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Forest
(graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
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Garden
To cultivate (a plot of ground) as a garden.
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Forest
A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
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Garden
To furnish with a garden.
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Forest
The colour forest green.
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Garden
To plant or tend a garden.
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Forest
(transitive) To cover an area with trees.
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Garden
To work as a gardener.
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Forest
An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
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Garden
Of, suitable to, or used in a garden
Garden tools.
Garden vegetables.
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Forest
A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
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Garden
Provided with open areas and greenery
A garden community.
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Forest
Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
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Garden
Garden-variety.
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Forest
To cover with trees or wood.
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Garden
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
A vegetable garden
A flower garden
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Forest
The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
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Garden
(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens.
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Forest
Land that is covered with trees and shrubs
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Garden
(attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
A garden party;
A garden path;
A garden spade
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Forest
Establish a forest on previously unforested land;
Afforest the mountains
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Garden
The grounds at the front or back of a house.
This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden.
We were drinking lemonade and playing croquet in the garden.
Our garden is overgrown with weeds.
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Garden
(cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
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Garden
(figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
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Garden
(slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
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Garden
To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
I love to garden — this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
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Garden
Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.
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Garden
Common, ordinary, domesticated.
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Garden
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
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Garden
A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,The pleasant garden of great Italy.
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Garden
To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
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Garden
To cultivate as a garden.
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Garden
A plot of ground where plants are cultivated
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Garden
The flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden
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Garden
A yard or lawn adjoining a house
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Garden
Work in the garden;
My hobby is gardening
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