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SHRUBBERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A collection of shrubs growing together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("shrubbery" is a kind of...):
botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)
Meronyms (members of "shrubbery"):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An area where a number of shrubs are planted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("shrubbery" is a kind of...):
area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))
Context examples:
Here Meg meant to have a fountain, shrubbery, and a profusion of lovely flowers, though just at present the fountain was represented by a weather-beaten urn, very like a dilapidated slopbowl, the shrubbery consisted of several young larches, undecided whether to live or die, and the profusion of flowers was merely hinted by regiments of sticks to show where seeds were planted.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You can slip in from the shrubbery at any time; and there you will find we keep our umbrellas hanging up by that door.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“Mr. Rushworth,” said Lady Bertram, “if I were you, I would have a very pretty shrubbery. One likes to get out into a shrubbery in fine weather.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Go in by the shrubbery, through that wicket.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Out I ran and through the shrubbery, but thank God there was no one there.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Woodley must be staying in the neighbourhood, for he did not sleep here, and yet I caught a glimpse of him again this morning, slinking about in the shrubbery.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were all three walking about together for an hour or two—first round the shrubberies of Hartfield, and afterwards in Highbury.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“And when they had gone over the house, he promised himself moreover the pleasure of accompanying her into the shrubberies and garden.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Two days after Mr. Bennet's return, as Jane and Elizabeth were walking together in the shrubbery behind the house, they saw the housekeeper coming towards them, and, concluding that she came to call them to their mother, went forward to meet her; but, instead of the expected summons, when they approached her, she said to Miss Bennet, I beg your pardon, madam, for interrupting you, but I was in hopes you might have got some good news from town, so I took the liberty of coming to ask.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
