orchard
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tʃərd noun
1.
an area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
2.
a group or collection of such trees.
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | an area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit trees |
| 2. | a collection of fruit trees especially cultivated |
| [Old English orceard, ortigeard, from ort-, from Latin hortus garden + geard | |
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Word Origin & History
orchard
O.E. orceard "fruit garden," probably from wortgeard, from wort "vegetable, plant root" + geard "garden, yard" (the word also meant "vegetable garden" until 15c.), with first element infl. by L. hortus (in L.L. ortus) "garden," from PIE *ghor-to- "an enclosure," from base *gher- "to grasp, enclose"
(see yard (1)).
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Example sentences
It was the orchard's silent acknowledgement of the fundamental weakness of humans faced with fruit.
The original gardens began simply with a fruit orchard, which was expanded upon by subsequent generations.
It scanned the orchard's bowers, then pane by pane it eyed the stories facing ours but never looked inside.
Deep in the firs is an orchard, where once a house stood, and they creep towards the gnarled and ancient trees.
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