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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

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

Bangalore used to be known for its image as a lush garden city with a foot firmly in the 21st Century.

From BBC ● May 27, 2017

This estate had opened in 1971, conceived as a garden city, but by the mid-1990s it had fallen into decay and isolation.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2017

"I do—if he spends his time sketching 'the Wielitzska' in half a dozen different poses instead of making plans for a garden city."

From The Lamp of Fate by Pedler, Margaret

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

The supermarket giant said jobs will be affected at its bakeries, mobile phone shops and its head office in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 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

The case, then commanding headlines as far east as Chicago, as far west as Denver, had indeed lured to Garden City a considerable press corps.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote