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• garden city
  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

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

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

He’d made his money building a garden city called Milano 2 on the eastern outskirts of Italy’s financial capital.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2016

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