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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

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

King Memas who, in the view of Lynch, constructed the famous canal, was in all probability the author of the garden city.

From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger

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

Four boxes have been placed in the Hertfordshire towns of Letchworth Garden City, Ware and Hertford - with a fifth available in Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 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