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or⋅chard

  [awr-cherd]
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–noun
1. an area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
2. a group or collection of such trees.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME orch(i)ard, OE orceard; r. ortyard, ME ortyerd, OE ortigeard (cf. Goth aurtigards garden), equiv. to ort- (comb. form akin to wort 2 ; later identified with L hortus garden) + geard yard 2
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or·chard   (ôr'chərd)   
n.  

  1. An area of land devoted to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.

  2. The trees cultivated in such an area.


[Middle English, from Old English orceard, alteration of ortgeard : perhaps wyrt, wort, plant; see wort1 + geard, yard; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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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" (see yard (1)).
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