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Orchard vs Lea - What's the difference?

orchard | lea |

As nouns the difference between orchard and lea

is that orchard is a garden or an area of land to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees while lea is an open field, meadow.

As a proper noun Lea is

{{given name|female|from=Hebrew}}, latinized form of Leah.

orchard

English

(wikipedia orchard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A garden or an area of land to the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
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  • The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.

    • Synonyms

    * (land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees) grove, plantation, woodlet

    Derived terms

    * Euclid's orchard * marble orchard * orchard bush * orcharded * orchard grass * orchard harrow * orchard heater * orchard-house * orcharding * orchardist * orchard mason bee * orchardman * orchard oriole * orchard-planting problem * orchard problem * orchard tower * orchard valve * orchard visibility problem * sap orchard * seed orchard * sugar orchard

    lea

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) legh, lege, lei "clearing, open ground" from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an open field, meadow
  • *XIX century , Alfred Tennyson,
  • *:Two children in two neighbor villages
  • *:Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas ;

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl), from (etyl) lier, to bind

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
  • A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.

    • Anagrams

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