orchard
pronunciation
How to pronounce orchard in British English:
UK [ˈɔːtʃəd]
How to pronounce orchard in American English:
US [ˈɔːrtʃərd]
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- Noun:
- garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
Word Origin
- orchard
- orchard: [OE] Etymologically, an orchard is probably simply a ‘plant-yard’. It appears to have been coined in the prehistoric Germanic period from *worti-, the ancestor of the now archaic English noun wort ‘plant, vegetable, herb’ (which is distantly related to root), and *gardaz, *gardon, forerunner of English yard and garden. Originally, as its derivation suggests, it was quite a broad term, covering vegetable gardens as well as enclosures for fruit trees, but by the 15th century it had more or less become restricted to the latter.=> garden, yard
- orchard (n.)
- late Old English orceard "fruit garden," earlier ortgeard, perhaps reduced from wortgeard, from wort (Old English wyrt "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).
Example
- 1. His body was buried at the foot of the orchard .
- 2. This is a pomegranate and orange orchard .
- 3. The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture .
- 4. In late april mr dale 's body was found in an orchard close to his home in quetta .
- 5. As we were sitting out on the balcony overlooking an olive orchard , the bombs started falling all around us .