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  garden city

  noun

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

  noun

  a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.

garden city

¹ American  

noun

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

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Garden City ² American  

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.

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garden city British  

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

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Etymology

Origin of garden city

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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garden city Garden City

Once part of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, it was known as "garden city" or a "pensioner's paradise".

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

Here, suspended between gnarled treetops, colored lanterns, vast ruins of the old sultanate below and the surreal Qutab Minar against the stars, I finally sensed the fantastical garden city celebrated in Latitude 28’s exhibition.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2022

But it’s the gardens—the separate orchid, sunflower, cactus, and butterfly gardens—that really strike you and that it seems only this ultra-green garden city would go to so much trouble to construct for you.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017

Wythenshawe was initially planned in the 1920s as a garden city development that would accommodate a growing population and those moved from the inner cities.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2017

It was called a garden city, but, more properly, it was a beautiful garden village, or hamlet.

From The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills by Cullum, Ridgwell

In the end, I realized how much I value this house,” Lucci, who snapped up the Garden City dwelling in 1978, told the outlet.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 5, 2025

A person working with HPS visited the Garden City, N.Y., offices of Brahmbhatt’s companies in July and found them closed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Ebbsfleet Garden City has been under development since 2015 and is being built across 2,500 acres of brownfield land in the Thames Estuary.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025

“Connie Chiume, 72, passed on at Garden City Hospital. ... The Family asks for privacy during this difficult period.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

Nowadays, Garden City, which was once a rather raucous frontier town, is quite subdued.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote