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or·chard

   [awr-cherd]
noun
1.
an area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
2.
a group or collection of such trees.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English orch(i)ard, Old English orceard; replacing ortyard, Middle English ortyerd, Old English ortigeard (compare Gothic aurtigards garden), equivalent to ort- (combining form akin to wort2; later identified with Latin hortus garden) + geard yard2
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orchard (ˈɔːtʃəd)
 
—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 + geardyard²]

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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"
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(see yard (1)).
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