How do you pronounce orchard?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/.

Where does orchard come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

orchard

/ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables: or-chard
IPA: /ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/

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Meaning

noun

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

noun

The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.

name

A topographic surname.

Example Sentences

"[…]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]"

Etymology

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.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: orchard, orċeard, *urtiz, *wurt-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈɔɹ.t͡ʃɚd/
British English: /ˈɔː.tʃəd/

Inflected Forms

orchards (plural)

Derived Forms

orcharded orcharder orchardful orchardgrass orcharding orchardist orchardless orchardlike orchardman orchardy

Phrases

Cherry Orchard cottage orchard creationist orchard Euclid's orchard High Orchard Indian Orchard jack-up-the-orchard marble orchard

Frequently Paired Words

wortyard

Synonyms

grove plantation woodlet

Rhymes With

tortured