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Synonyms for orchards


Grammar : Noun
Spell : awr-cherd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔr tʃərd



Définition of orchards

Origin :
  • late Old English orceard "fruit garden," earlier ortgeard, perhaps reduced from wortgeard, from wort "vegetable, plant root" + geard "garden, yard" (the word also meant "vegetable garden" until 15c.); see yard (n.1). First element influenced in Middle English by Latin hortus (in Late Latin ortus) "garden," which also is from the root of yard (n.1).
  • noun fruit farm
Example sentences :
  • Where are the steadings, and orchards, and vineyards, which made France fair?
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The cottages with orchards and flower-gardens are trim and comfortable.
  • Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • We know them, we who have courted Pomona in her fair New England orchards.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • May all that you can wish for––orchards, oat-fields, wheat, and cattle––be yours.
  • Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss
  • Smaller farms are the rule and orchards are to be seen everywhere.
  • Extract from : « Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail » by Ezra Meeker
  • In the fields were farmers ploughing, in the orchards gathering apples.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • In the foreground were the green fields, the gardens, and the orchards of the lower valley.
  • Extract from : « Rollo in Switzerland » by Jacob Abbott
  • You with your big farm and orchards and every crop a success!
  • Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
  • The scanty supply was not of gardens and orchards, but of houses to rest in.
  • Extract from : « Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 » by J. Endell Tyler
  • This method will also destroy the plum-curculio in orchards.
  • Extract from : « Checking the Waste » by Mary Huston Gregory

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