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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OR'CHARD, n. [See Yard.]
An inclosure for fruit trees. In Great Britain, a department of the garden appropriated to fruit trees of all kinds, but chiefly to apple trees. In America, any piece of land set with apple trees, is called an orchard; and orchards are usually cultivated land, being either grounds for mowing or tillage. In some parts of the country, a piece of ground planted with peach trees is called a peach orchard. But in most cases, I believe the orchard in both countries is distinct from the garden.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth [syn: grove, woodlet, orchard, plantation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ortgeard, from ort- (from Latin hortus garden) + geard yard — more at yard Date: before 12th century a planting of fruit trees, nut trees, or sugar maples; also the trees of such a planting

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a piece of enclosed land with fruit-trees. Derivatives: orchardist n. Etymology: OE ortgeard f. L hortus garden + YARD(2)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Orchard Or"chard, n. [AS. ortgeard, wyrtgeard, lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs; wyrt herb + geard yard. See Wort, Yard inclosure.] 1. A garden. [Obs.] 2. 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. Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass (Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots. Orchard oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(orchards) An orchard is an area of land on which fruit trees are grown. N-COUNT

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

or'-cherd:

(1) pardec, from Old Persian, "a walled-in enclosure"; paradeisos, a word in classical Greek applied to the garden of Babylon (Diodorus Siculus xi.10) and to a game park (Xenophon, Anab. i.2, 7). See Ne 2:8, "forest," margin "park"; So 4:13, "orchard," margin "paradise" (of pomegranates); Ec 2:5, "parks," the King James Version "orchards"; see PARADISE.

(2) kepos, "garden" or "orchard": "a white thorn in an orchard" (Baruch 6:71).

Foolish Dictionary

The small boy's Eden of today, in which the apple again occasions the fall.

Moby Thesaurus

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