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An orchard is a place where fruit trees are grown on purpose — apples, peaches, mangoes, and so on. It is not a wild wood, and it is not a garden of flowers or vegetables. The trees usually stand in rows or groups so people can pick the fruit. Farmers say the apple orchard; in towns you might still hear it for a small stand of fruit trees behind a house. It is an ordinary countryside word. Though actually, the first half is not from Latin hortus (“garden”), even though that story is often repeated; the old English make-up is closer to “plant-yard.”
core核心畫面
組成From Middle English orchard, orcherd, from Old English orċeard, ortġeard: *ort (probably from a Germanic plant-word, a variant of the family that gives wort, “herb / useful plant”; later wrongly tied to unrelated Latin hortus, “garden”) + ġeard (an enclosed piece of land; see yard). Equivalent to wort + yard. Yard itself is, ironically, related at a very deep level to hortus — which is why the folk story felt so neat.
同家族的字
- yardshares ġeard, the enclosed piece of land
- wortshares the old plant-word in the first half; orchard is equivalent to wort + yard
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Orchardname
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A topographic surname.
orchardnoun/ˈɔː.tʃəd/
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A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
- […]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,[…]
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The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。