apple orchard
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- noun
- /ˈæpəl ˈɔrdʒərd/
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- We visited the apple orchard to pick fresh fruit during the harvest season.
A case study of reclaiming an ancient apple orchard.
- A case study of reclaiming an ancient apple orchard.
- He does telekinesis and he even finds a lost child in an apple orchard.
- You got fall colors and pumpkins and apple orchards and one of the nice things as well is garlic planting time.
Examples
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The house was surrounded by apple orchards, and the apples were ripe and falling.
Fiction book (1999) -
Her father was an orthopedic surgeon in Middletown, New York, and he owned a forty-acre apple orchard.
Fiction book (2002) -
It's evening in an apple orchard.
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We decided to meet on a Sunday morning in the apple orchard on Garden Hill.
Academic text (2005) -
I took her for our anniversary to that apple orchard.
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Yeah, plenty of apple orchards around Lake Geneva.
Fiction book (1991) -
In this picture, we are at Stuckey Farms, the apple orchard we like to visit in the fall.
Blog text (25) -
Vast reaches of sagebrush have been transformed into apple orchards that sit silently in the sun and wind, far from the nearest town.
Fiction book (1999) -
Bring on Fall (since it's coming anyway) for apple orchard visits and yummy cider and donuts!
Blog text (21) -
In actuality, Forsline stands on a dirt road bisecting apple orchards north of the Finger Lakes community of Geneva, New York.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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A piece of land with fruit or nut trees grown for food
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'apple' (type of fruit/tree) + 'orchard' (land planted with fruit trees); the noun–noun compound simply specifies the kind of orchard. This is a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Apple orchard joins apple and orchard to paint a simple picture of a piece of land full of apple trees, and apple shows the fruit while orchard shows the planted land. That's why it means 'an area of land where apple trees are grown for their fruit'.