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hort

hort

1 9.9
A garden where people grow vegetables, fruit, or flowers
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : huerto
  • That's fine, except that Too $hort is at his finest when he tells a great story, and not one of these approaches the charm of "Betty."

Examples

  • Too $hort, Chillest Illest, Steady the Boss, Maniac Lok (Roseland, 8 NW 6th)

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  • As a student in the hort department at NCSU in the late '80s, my brain was cracked wide open by JC.

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  • Too $hort, Williams took the stage about 10:40 p.m., Douglas said.

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  • Get any closer, we'd wear each other's horts,

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  • The children played happily in the hort, surrounded by colorful flowers.

  • She planted tomatoes and peppers in her backyard hort this spring.

  • Every summer, we enjoy picnics in the local community hort filled with fresh produce.

Synonyms

garden
vshort
41 1.0

The plants people grow at home for food or beauty

is the place used to grow those plants rather than the plants themselves
kitchen garden
vshort
  • UK
1 2.6

A small area near a house where people grow vegetables and herbs for the home

is more general and can be anywhere and include flowers or fruit

How Cultivated

hort
  • Archaic
1 9.9
vegetable patch
  • UK
2 2.0
wild
142 2.8

Surface Forms

hort singular
horts plural

Etymology

Hort comes from the Latin word hortus, which means 'garden'. You can see the same root in horticulture, 'care of gardens', so a hort is simply a garden where people grow flowers, vegetables, or fruit.