Garden City

¹

noun

1. a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.

2. a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.

3. a city in W Kansas.

garden city

²

noun

1. a residential community or section of a community with landscaped gardens, parks, and other open areas.

garden city

noun

1. a planned town of limited size with broad streets and spacious layout, containing trees and open spaces and surrounded by a rural belt See also garden suburb

Word History and Origins

Origin of Garden City¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Ethan was murdered by his grandparents Michael and Kerry Ives at their home in Garden City, Flintshire, in August 2021 after being subjected to a catalogue of abuse that left him emaciated and covered in bruises.

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Ethan Ives-Griffiths died on 16 August 2021 after suffering a "catastrophic" head injury at his grandparents' home in Garden City, Flintshire.

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The two-year-old was murdered by grandparents Michael Ives, 47, and Kerry Ives, 46, at their home in Garden City, Flintshire, in August 2021.

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When the team arrived at their hotel in Garden City, a salubrious Long Island village 12 miles to the west of Bethpage, things were not quite up to scratch.

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After World War Two Clement Attlee's government planned the first wave of new towns, including in Stevenage, Crawley and Welwyn Garden City, to relocate people from poor or bombed-out housing, with development corporations assigned responsibility for building them.

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