rear garden

collocation in English

meaningsofrearandgarden

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rear
adjective[before noun]
uk
/rɪər/us
/rɪr/
at the back ...
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garden
noun
uk
/ˈɡɑː.dən/us
/ˈɡɑːr.dən/
UK
a piece of land next to and belonging to a house, where flowers and other plants are grown, and often containing an area ...
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(Definition ofrearandgardenfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Every time it rains, they fear that theirreargardenmay begin to disappear.
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Thereargardenformerly featured a sunken pond.
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It is three stories high and almost square, with two side wings on thereargarden.
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Thereargardenhas trees and ends southwards with an overhang.
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Blood was also found on various leaves in the adjoiningreargarden.
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Its largereargardenharboured other class room buildings as well as a playground.
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For an hour each afternoon they could exercise in thereargardenunder the watchful eye of the guards.
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I believe their conduct is designed to make me surrender my right to use thereargardenand even to induce me to leave my flat and live elsewhere.
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By all means give people a front orreargarden, but stop cluttering up the environment with all these other traps which have to be bulldozed down or concreted over.
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This edifice has the main entrance on the eastern side, with a staircase leading to areargardenwhich is at an upper level than the nearby road.
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