hanging gardens
11HANGING GARDENS, THE, OF BABYLON — one of the seven wonders of the world, had an area of four acres, formed a square, were a series of terraces supported by pillars sloping upwards like a pyramid and seeming to hang in air; they are ascribed to Semiramis …
12Hanging Gardens of Babylon — noun a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC • Instance Hypernyms: ↑garden • Member Holonyms: ↑Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, ↑Seven Wonders of the World •… …
13hanging — n. & adj. n. 1 a the practice or an act of executing by hanging a person. b (attrib.) meriting or causing this (a hanging offence). 2 (usu. in pl.) draperies hung on a wall etc. adj. that hangs or is hung; suspended. Phrases and idioms: hanging… …
14hanging — hang•ing [[t]ˈhæŋ ɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) the act, an instance, or the form of capital punishment carried out by suspending a condemned criminal by the neck from a gallows, gibbet, or the like, until dead 2) something that hangs or is hung on a wall, as a… …
15Gardens by the Bay — The Gardens by the Bay (Chinese: 滨海湾花园) is a working name for the planned development of three major parks around the Marina Bay in downtown Singapore. First announced to the general public in the National Day Rally by the Prime Minister Lee… …
16hanging — noun 1》 the practice of hanging condemned people as a form of capital punishment. 2》 a decorative piece of fabric hung on the wall of a room or around a bed. adjective suspended in the air. ↘situated or designed so as to appear to hang down:… …
17gardens and yards — [gardens and yards] Most British people prefer to live in a house rather than a flat and one of the reasons for this is that houses usually have gardens. The garden is surrounded by a fence or hedge and is a place where people can be outside and… …
18Hanging garden — Garden Gar den (g[aum]r d n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See {Yard} an inclosure.] 1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits,… …
19Hanging Hills — Geobox|Range name=Hanging Hills other name=Metacomet Ridge image size=260 image caption=View of East Peak and Castle Craig from South Mountain. Merimere Reservoir and Mine Island visible beneath country=United States state= Connecticut state1=… …
20Kensington Roof Gardens — Part of the Kensington Roof Gardens The Roof Gardens (formerly known as Derry and Toms Roof Gardens and Kensington Roof Gardens) is a roof garden covering 6,000 m² (1.5 acres) on top of the former Derry and Toms building on Kensington High Street …
