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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

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 will not call it a 'garden city', for a garden city represents an attempt to add some of the features of the country to a town.

From Ancient Town-Planning by F. (Francis) Haverfield

The lenders found Brahmbhatt’s corporate offices in Garden City, N.Y., locked and empty when they visited on Aug. 4.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

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

Barriers in the city's Garden City district "were removed by the Egyptian authorities" on Sunday, the Foreign Office said in a statement.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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

So he said, ‘Pauly, you remember those two fellows we’ve been looking for? Well, now we know where they are, and Daddy’s going to go get them and bring them here to Garden City.’

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote