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orchard

name · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.tʃəd/
  • General-American: /ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/
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  • CMU ARPABET: AO1 R CH ER0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A topographic surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grove, plantation, woodlet

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grove, woodlet, plantation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: garden

Narrower terms: apple orchard, lemon grove, orange grove, peach orchard

History

Etymology

Topographic surname for someone who lived by an orchard.

From Middle English orchard, orcherd, from Old English orċeard, ortġeard, a compound of *ort (probably from Proto-Germanic *urtiz, a dissimilated variant of Proto-Germanic *wurt- (“wort (plant)”), later incorrectly associated with unrelated Latin hortus (“garden”)) + ġeard (see hortyard and yard, which ironically is etymologically linked with hortus). Cognate with Swedish örtagård (“herb garden”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (aurtigards, “orchard”), Old High German orzōn (“to cultivate a field”). Equivalent to wort + yard. More at root.

Across languages

Translations

140 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: frutore — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Arabic: بُسْتَان (bustān) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Arabic: بَيَارَة (bayāra) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Arabic: جنينة (genēna) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Aragonese: uerta — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Armenian: մրգաստան (mrgastan) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Armenian: պտղատու այգի (ptġatu aygi) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Asturian: güerta — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Azerbaijani: bağ — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Azerbaijani: bağça — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Belarusian: фрукто́вы сад (fruktóvy sad) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Belarusian: сад (sad) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Bulgarian: ово́щна гради́на (ovóštna gradína) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Burmese: ဥယျာဉ် (u.yyany) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Catalan: horta — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Chinese Mandarin: 果園 /果园 (guǒyuán) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Czech: sad — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Danish: frugthave — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Danish: frugtplantage — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Dutch: boomgaard — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Dutch: bongerd — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Egyptian: D36:X1-N35:X1-M3:X1-Z1-O1 (ꜥt nt ḫt) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Esperanto: fruktarbejo — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Finnish: hedelmätarha — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Finnish: hedelmäpuutarha — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • French: verger — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Galician: horta — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Galician: pomar — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Galician: pomareira — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Galician: souto — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Galician: cortiña — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Galician: eixido — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Georgian: წალკოტი (c̣alḳoṭi) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • German: Obstgarten — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • German: Obstwiese — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • German: Obstplantage — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 (aurtigards) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Hebrew: מַטָּע (mattá) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Hebrew: בֻּסְתָּן (bustán) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Hebrew: פַּרְדֵּס (pardés) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Hindi: फलौद्यान (phalaudyān) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Hindi: बाड़ी (bāṛī) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Hungarian: gyümölcsös — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Hungarian: gyümölcsöskert — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Ido: fruktogardeno — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Ido: frukt-arboreyo — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Irish: úllord — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Old Irish: aball-gort — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Old Irish: ithlann — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Italian: frutteto — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Japanese: 果樹園 (kajuen) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Khmer: ចំការ (cɑmkaa) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Khmer: ច្បារ (cbaa) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Korean: 과수원 (gwasuwon) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Northern Kurdish: bostan — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Latin: pōmārium — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Latvian: augļu dārzs — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Luxembourgish: Bongert — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Macedonian: овоштарник (ovoštarnik) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Malay: dusun — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Brunei Malay: kabun buah — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Brunei Malay: dusun buah — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Manx: messghart — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Māori: oro — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Māori: oro rākau — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Classical Nahuatl: xōchihcualcuauhtlah — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Norman: gardîn à frit — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Norwegian Bokmål: frukthage — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: frukthage — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Occitan: òrta — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Ossetian: дыргъдон (dyrǧdon) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Pannonian Rusyn: овоцнїк (ovocnjik) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Pashto: بڼ (baṇ) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Iranian Persian: پالیز (pâliz) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Polish: sad — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Portuguese: pomar — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Romanian: pomet — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Romanian: livadă — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Russian: сад (sad) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Russian: фрукто́вый сад (fruktóvyj sad) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Scottish Gaelic: ubhalghort — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Serbo-Croatian: во̏ћња̄к — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Serbo-Croatian: vȍćnjāk — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Sicilian: jardinu — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Slovak: sad — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Slovene: sadovnjak — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Spanish: huerta — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Spanish: vergel — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Spanish: huerta de arboles frutales — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Spanish: chácara — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Spanish: campo — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Swedish: fruktträdgård — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Tagalog: lagwerta — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Turkish: bostan — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Turkish: bağ — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Ottoman Turkish: باغ (bağ) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Ukrainian: фрукто́вий сад (fruktóvyj sad) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Ukrainian: сад (sad) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Urdu: باغِیچَہ (bāġīca) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Urdu: باغ (bāġ) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Urdu: باڑی (bāṛī) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Vietnamese: vườn cây ăn trái — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Vietnamese: vườn cây ăn quả — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Volapük: flukagad — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Welsh: perllan — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Zazaki: baĝ — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Zazaki: bostan (diq) — land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
  • Catalan: arbre fruiter — the trees in an orchard
  • Chinese Mandarin: 果樹 /果树 (guǒshù) — the trees in an orchard
  • Danish: frugttræ — the trees in an orchard
  • Esperanto: horto — the trees in an orchard
  • Finnish: hedelmäpuut — the trees in an orchard
  • French: arbre fruitier m arbres fruitiers — the trees in an orchard
  • Galician: froiteira — the trees in an orchard
  • German: Obstbaum — the trees in an orchard
  • Hungarian: gyümölcsfa — the trees in an orchard
  • Italian: albero da frutto — the trees in an orchard
  • Japanese: 果樹 (kaju) — the trees in an orchard
  • Khmer: ចំការ (cɑmkaa) — the trees in an orchard
  • Korean: 과수 (gwasu) — the trees in an orchard
  • Latvian: augļu dārzs — the trees in an orchard
  • Polish: sad — the trees in an orchard
  • Portuguese: árvore frutífera — the trees in an orchard
  • Russian: сад (sad) — the trees in an orchard
  • Russian: фрукто́вый сад (fruktóvyj sad) — the trees in an orchard
  • Russian: садо́вые дере́вья (sadóvyje derévʹja) — the trees in an orchard
  • Russian: фрукто́вые дере́вья (fruktóvyje derévʹja) — the trees in an orchard
  • Russian: плодо́вые дере́вья (plodóvyje derévʹja) — the trees in an orchard
  • Serbo-Croatian: во̏ћња̄к — the trees in an orchard
  • Serbo-Croatian: vȍćnjāk — the trees in an orchard
  • Sicilian: macchia — the trees in an orchard
  • Sicilian: àrburu — the trees in an orchard
  • Sicilian: -arra — the trees in an orchard
  • Sicilian: -itu — the trees in an orchard
  • Spanish: árbol de huerta — the trees in an orchard
  • Spanish: frutal — the trees in an orchard
  • Spanish: arbol frutal — the trees in an orchard
  • Swedish: fruktträd — the trees in an orchard
  • Volapük: flukagadabims — the trees in an orchard
  • Volapük: flukagadabimem — the trees in an orchard
Real reading context

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