The state, condition, or characteristics of being a garden; the essential nature or quality that makes something a garden.
Compound of 'garden' and '-hood' (state or condition), similar to 'childhood,' 'manhood,' and 'sainthood.' The suffix derives from Old English 'had' meaning 'state or person.'
English borrowed '-hood' from Old English as a way to make abstract nouns: falsehood, likelihood, neighborhood. It's why we can philosophize about the 'statehood' or 'falsehood' of something.
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