Meanings
plural pleasure gardens · alternative pleasure-garden
- A park or garden that is open to the public for entertainment, typically including concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, and zoos.
Pleasure gardens offered a wide range of visual and musical sensations. […] If you wanted to slip the bounds of sexual decorum, you knew when and where to find willing accomplices inside the pleasure garden.
2013, Jonathan Conlin, editor, The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 26Synonyms: pleasance
- Synonym of pleasure ground.
Synonyms: pleasure ground
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA park or garden that is open to the public for entertainment, typically including concert halls, bandstands, amusement rides, and zoos.
nounSynonym of pleasure ground.
Translations
German Lustgarten
- Lustgartenpark for entertainment
Hungarian díszkert, park
- díszkertpark for entertainment
- parkpark for entertainment
Polish ogród wypoczynkowy
- ogród wypoczynkowypark for entertainment
Russian вокза́л
- вокза́л (vokzál)park for entertainment
Cite this entry
pleasure garden. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasure%20garden
“pleasure garden.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasure%20garden. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pleasure garden,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pleasure%20garden.
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