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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

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

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

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2015

At one time he joined Misson, the originator of "piracy-without-tears" at his garden city of Libertatia.

From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Gosse, Philip

The Panshanger Community Centre in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, was bedecked with Union flag bunting and plastic chairs.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 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

No one answered the door at a Garden City house listed as Brahmbhatt’s residence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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

And so it came to pass that almost two years after the trial, the whole cast reassembled in the courtroom at Garden City.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote