orchard

Meaning

Noun

• A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
• The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.

Related

Similar words

• grove, plantation, woodlet

Origin

• 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-, later incorrectly associated with Latin hortus ("garden")) + ġeard (see yard). Cognate with Swedish örtagård, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃, Old High German orzōn.