Synonyms for orchard


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


Définition of orchard

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 :
  • She had disobeyed by just standing outside the orchard door.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • The pipe, and also his head, again indicated the men in the orchard.
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
  • At the road he met Jack and Wally, just returning from the orchard.
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
  • In this orchard was the building where the poor children lived.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • Entered the gardening and orchard business when a young man.
  • Extract from : « Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date » by Anonymous
  • Looked on the orchard, a bloomy sea, with its billows of blossoms.
  • Extract from : « Poems » by William D. Howells
  • See to it that your bedroom window that opens on the orchard is left open.
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
  • "Oh, mamma, we're going to the orchard to play," said Archy.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 » by Various
  • They lingered neither in the garden nor the orchard, through which they had to pass.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • In the orchard, they were greeted by the birds that banqueted in the fruit-trees.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

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