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

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

Progress was a garden city of concentric rings, three miles wide.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2015

"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