orchard

  • 11Orchard — This article is about the planting of trees in agriculture. For other uses, see Orchard (disambiguation). A lemon orchard in the Upper Galilee in Israel …

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  • 12Orchard FM — Infobox Radio station name=Orchard FM airdate= 26 November 1989 frequency=97.1 MHz, 102.6 MHz share = 16.6% share as of = September 2007 share source = [http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly listening.php] area= Yeovil and Taunton format… …

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  • 13Orchard — This unusual name is of Anglo Saxon origin, and can be either a topographical or a metonymic occupational surname. If the former, the surname means someone who lived near or at an orchard, and if the latter one who was employed in an orchard, a… …

    Surnames reference

  • 14orchard — n. an apple; cherry; peach orchard * * * [ ɔːtʃəd] cherry peach orchard an apple …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 15orchard — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fruit garden, grove, vineyard, plantation. See agriculture. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. fruit trees, nut trees, fruit plantation, fruit farm, apple orchard, peach orchard; see also farm . III (Roget s 3… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 16orchard — UK [ˈɔː(r)tʃə(r)d] / US [ˈɔrtʃərd] noun [countable] Word forms orchard : singular orchard plural orchards an area of land where fruit trees are grown …

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  • 17orchard — A tract of land, sometimes large, sometimes small devoted to the growing of trees which produce fruit or nuts good for food. To constitute an orchard within the meaning of provisions in an eminent domain statute exempting orchards from… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 18orchard — noun Orchard is used after these nouns: ↑apple …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 19orchard — or|chard [ˈo:tʃəd US ˈo:rtʃərd] n [: Old English; Origin: ortgeard, probably from Latin hortus garden + Old English geard ( YARD)] a place where fruit trees are grown ▪ a cherry orchard …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 20orchard — [OE] Etymologically, an orchard is probably simply a ‘plant yard’. It appears to have been coined in the prehistoric Germanic period from *worti , the ancestor of the now archaic English noun wort ‘plant, vegetable, herb’ (which is distantly… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins