Orchard

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: or=chard

CIDE DICTIONARY

Orchard, n. [AS. ortgeard, wyrtgeard, lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs; wyrt herb + geard yard. See Wort, Yard inclosure.].

•  A garden.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Orchard, n. a piece of enclosed land with fruit-trees.

Derivative

orchardist n.

Etymology

OE ortgeard f. L hortus garden + YARD(2)

THESAURUS

Orchard

arable land, barnyard, barton, bocage, bosk, cattle ranch, chicken farm, collective farm, coppice, copse, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, dry farm, dude ranch, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, grove, hacienda, holt, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, hurst, kibbutz, kolkhoz, location, mains, manor farm, pasture, pen, plantation, poultry farm, ranch, rancheria, rancho, shaw, sheep farm, spinney, station, steading, stock farm, toft, tope, truck farm, wood lot, woodlet

ROGET THESAURUS

Orchard

Agriculture

N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.