garden city

¹

noun

1. a residential community or section of a community with landscaped gardens, parks, and other open areas.

Garden City

²

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.

garden city

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of garden city¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

The paved pathway snakes along the river and connects downtown Boise to Garden City, with plenty of wineries, restaurants, and green space along the route.

From Eater

Coiled Wines has a tasting room and production facility in Garden City, but you’re better off pulling up to the bar at the downtown tasting room where you can enjoy small plates, happy hour specials, and the vibrant, friendly crowd.

From Eater

At the air traffic control center in Garden City, Long Island, which tracks and manages traffic flow in high-level airspace over the New York area, controllers had caught sight on radar of this aircraft as it made its descent.

From Washington Post

Several police departments, including Garden City and Savannah in Georgia, and in Vermont, are also providing deaf people with cards that identify them as deaf to the police.

From Ozy

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Co., Inc., 1964 Stigers, Harold G.

From The Daily Beast

But somehow, in Garden City, Shawn never seemed to get much more.

From The Daily Beast

Except for her family, there was nothing more for her in Garden City.

From The Daily Beast

It was something more for a girl from Garden City, a suburb of little boxes built for the auto workers of the Fifties.

From The Daily Beast

When we got to the third checkpoint in Garden City we were taken aside by security forces, questioned and arrested.

From The Daily Beast

It is the work people going home to the garden city behind the hill.

From Project Gutenberg

It is thought that this opinion may give a serious set-back to the Garden City movement.

From Project Gutenberg

One of the most enduring impressions Meran leaves upon the mind is that of being in the true sense "a garden city."

From Project Gutenberg

Except for its restricted little business quarter the houses and villas of Sorrento are disposed on the best of garden city plans.

From Project Gutenberg

The children were put on these and we started for the mill at Garden City, one hundred and thirty miles away.

From Project Gutenberg