"pleasure garden" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pleasure gardens [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pleasure garden (plural pleasure gardens)
  1. A park or garden that is open to the public for entertainment, typically including concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, and zoos. Synonyms: pleasure-garden Translations (park for entertainment): Lustgarten [masculine] (German), díszkert (Hungarian), park (Hungarian), вокза́л (vokzál) [obsolete] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-pleasure_garden-en-noun-LrONLEwR Disambiguation of 'park for entertainment': 94 6
  2. Synonym of pleasure ground Synonyms: pleasure ground [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-pleasure_garden-en-noun-NEwC7j~A Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64

Inflected forms

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