formal garden

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   a garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs

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Questions about formal garden

What does formal garden mean?

formal garden means "a garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs".

Is formal garden a common word?

formal garden is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.