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wortyard

UK/ˈwɜːt.tʃəd/US/ˈwɝt.t͡ʃɚd/

wortyard noun: a garden where vegetables or herbs are grown.

Noun

wortyard (plural wortyards)

  1. A garden where vegetables or herbs are grown.
    • For their wort-yards or orchards we must look not so much to the castle as to the monastery.1929, Historian's Report, page 94
    • After taking that class I was able to begin planting my wortyard, and to experiment with combining herbs for teas, drying them to preserve them, and making some tinctures, salves, and capsules.2012, Jessica Prentice, Full Moon Feast, page 147

Synonyms of wortyard

Forms of wortyard

pluralwortyards
alternative formwort-yard
alternative formwort yard

Origin of wortyard

From Middle English wortȝerd, woorteȝerd, wyrteard, from Old English wyrtġeard (“vegetable garden”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurtigard (“vegetable garden”), equivalent to wort + yard. Cognate with German Wurzgarten, Würzgarten, Swedish örtgård (“herb garden”).

Questions about wortyard

What does wortyard mean?
Wortyard means a garden where vegetables or herbs are grown.
What part of speech is wortyard?
Wortyard is a noun.
How do you pronounce wortyard?
Wortyard is pronounced /ˈwɜːt.tʃəd/ (UK).
What is the plural of wortyard?
The plural of wortyard is wortyards.

Words near wortyard in the dictionary

  1. Wortmanns
  2. Wortmans
  3. worts
  4. Wortwell
  5. worty
  6. wortyard
  7. wortyards
  8. wos
  9. WOSB
  10. wosbird
  11. wosbirds

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