Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
- n. The trees cultivated in such an area.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A garden.
- n. A piece of ground, usually inclosed, devoted to the culture of fruit-trees, especially the apple, the pear, the peach, the plum, and the cherry; a collection of cultivated fruit-trees.
Wiktionary
- n. A garden or an area of land to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
- n. The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A garden.
- n. An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.
WordNet 3.0
- n. garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
Etymologies
- Old English ortgeard, a compound of ort, either from wyrt ("wort (plant)") or from Latin hortus ("garden"), and geard (see yard). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (aurtigards). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English orceard, alteration of ortgeard : perhaps wyrt, wort, plant; see wort1 + geard, yard; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This orchard is a Central New York institution and a fun fall trip for families.”
“Immediately east of the orchard is a native woods, which drops down into the saddle of Saya, a grassy plains ideal for grazing.”
“Apparently, the word orchard is used in conjunction with non-citrus fruit, whereas for citrus fruit one must use the word grove.”
“It's all real, you see – real gamekeeper's lodge, real groping around in "orchard", real flowers.”
“I still remember the B&B and macadamia orchard confiscated by the Zapatistas in Ocosingo a few years ago where the Zapatistas waited until the macadamia trees were in full fruition commercially speaking, confiscated the orchard from the foreign owners and then laid waste to it.”
“It was impossible to see the hidden orchard from the road, so Karen Liebreich, Ms. Cruz's picking partner, scrambled from the abandoned plot of bramble and rubble in her long, rubber boots t o guide us to the five trees bursting with ripe Bramley eating and cooking apples.”
The Wall Street Journal: Urban Scrumpers Are Picking the Forbidden Fruit
“When his second wife died and he was free to propose, he did one day, on a picnic to the place they called her orchard, and she refused instantly, without losing a trace of her merriment.”
“The floor of the orchard was a topiary garden, filled with carefully tended shrubbery sculpted into the forms of various small animals and birds.”
“A couple of friends, looking out from our just-repaired deck onto that clearing we still call the orchard, though the peach trees have all died, and the Lodi apple blew over a couple of years ago in a big windstorm, have suggested that we should go with the “meadow” look that the once-grassy clear places between the remaining trees have taken on.”
Restoring Good Order to a Disturbed Land: Introductory Thoughts
“Mrs. Page, Mrs. Cranch, and Mrs. Garfit could see Mrs. Flanders in the orchard because the orchard was a piece of Dods Hill enclosed; and Dods Hill dominated the village.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘orchard’.
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Mother-of-All-Saints
Some alternatives to calling it your 'stuff'.
Mount of Venus, nameless, name-it-not, omnibus, the novelty, niche, nest, moss-rose, peach, old-ding, old woman, the nonsuch and 115 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
barn, tractor, cow, hay, horse, pig, corn, plough, irrigation, subsidies, crops, plant and 260 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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The Secret Garden
sickly, fretful, toddle, cross, stammer, manor, slink, grind, disdain, imploringly, wring, wailing and 30 more...
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thing
apron, lard, clove, camphor, alfalfa, amber, caraway, juniper, kohl, lute, shale, glyph and 142 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, O
opacity, opaline, olfactory, orthoepy, orthoepy, oleaginous, obloquy, oasitic, obtrude, orthotic, overweening, ostinato and 125 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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iRosaceae
An ode to apples. I am much indebted to 'Wild Apples' which, though probably not likely to change your life and improve your productivity at the sausage factory, will enthrall you with half an hou...
rosaceae, apple, maelon, crab, jonathon, eden, temptation, clan lamont, eye, sward, pomona, granny smith and 135 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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wendell berry
words from WB's writing, typical of his concerns
hill, valley, creek, house, town, river, bottoms, upland, remember, recollection, place, mechanization and 39 more...
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The best words
toboggan, forsooth, quinquireme, deluxe, magnanimous, thrush, lucid, acumen, lascivious, loquacious, derivative, bituminous and 4 more...
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