orchard
Other forms: orchards
An orchard is a tree garden. If you visit New England in autumn, make sure to stop by a local apple orchard and pick a few baskets to take home.
From the Old English orceard blossomed our modern-day spelling of orchard, a noun meaning “fruit farm.” But you can also use the word figuratively to refer to something filled with treats or precious content. The US Congregational minister, Henry Ward Beecher, was famous for having proclaimed, “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
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garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowthsynonyms: grove, plantation, woodlettypes:apple orcharda grove of apple treeslemon grovea grove of lemon treesorange grovegrove of orange treespeach orcharda grove of peach treestype of:gardena plot of ground where plants are cultivated
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from Act II Scene ii of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Full text is available here.
Written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, or blank verse, this poem describes a pair of farmers working together to fix the stone wall separating their estates. Read the text here. Here are links to our lists for other poems by Robert Frost: "The Death of the Hired Man", "After Apple-Picking", "Out, Out—", "Birches"
Learn these words from the social science article by Beth Geiger (Inside: Level A, Unit 2). Here are our links to the selections of "Water for Life": The Secret Water, How Do We Use Water?, Water at Work, Irrigation Pumps Can Save Poor Farmers Here are our links to the units of Level A: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7, Unit 8 Here are our links to the Inside books: Level A, Level B, Level C Here is our link to a list of academic vocabulary for Inside: Academic Vocabulary