Orchard Meaning
/ˈɔː.tʃəd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
nounThe trees themselves cultivated in such an area.
Sentence Examples
The farmer caught the boy stealing the apples in his orchard.
I delight in going to the apple orchard each fall.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Behind the house, the farmer's ____ contained hundreds of fruit trees.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The farmer planted a new apple ____ on the hillside to replace the trees lost in the storm.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English orchard, orcherd, from Old English orċeard, ortġeard, a compound of *ort (probably from Proto-Germanic *urtiz, a dissimilated variant of Proto-Germanic *wurt- (“wort (plant)”), later incorrectly associated with unrelated Latin hortus (“garden”)) + ġeard (see hortyard and yard, which ironically is etymologically linked with hortus). Cognate with Swedish örtagård (“herb garden”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (aurtigards, “orchard”), Old High German orzōn (“to cultivate a field”). Equivalent to wort + yard. More at root.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]"
— 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Behind the house, the farmer's ____ contained hundreds of fruit trees.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The farmer planted a new apple ____ on the hillside to replace the trees lost in the storm.