a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
a city in W Kansas.
First recorded in 1840–50
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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
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
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
From its hundreds of small parks and thousands of trees, it claims the right to call itself the garden city.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.
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
No one answered the door at a Garden City house listed as Brahmbhatt’s residence.
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
A lady from Garden City took Kenyon’s dog.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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