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orchat

orchat is the obsolete form of orchard.

Meaning of orchard

Noun

orchard (plural orchards)

  1. 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,[…]1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
  2. The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.

See all 3 meanings of orchard

Forms of orchat

pluralorchats

Questions about orchat

What is orchat the obsolete form of?
Orchat is the obsolete form of orchard.

Words near orchat in the dictionary

  1. orchardman
  2. orchardmen
  3. orchards
  4. orchardsful
  5. orchardy
  6. orchat
  7. orchats
  8. orchel
  9. orchella
  10. orcheocele
  11. orchesis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orchat (page history and authors); orchard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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