garden city

noun

: a planned residential community with park and planted areas

Examples of garden city in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Opatija is lush, a garden city watered by springs flowing from Mount Učka. — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026

The neighborhood was built in the early 20th century, planned by then city architect Per Olof Hallman, who envisioned an English garden city. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2026

Thank you for the warmest welcome to your garden city. — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025

Manhattan merged with Brooklyn a dozen years before, and here is Greater New York, spreading into new suburbs, boroughs, and garden cities. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025

Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia. — Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for garden city

• intercity
• lubricity
• pugnacity
• rhythmicity
• seismicity
• sphericity
• subcommittee
• tendinitis
• bitty
• ditty
• gritty
• kitty

Geographical Definition

Garden City

geographical name

1

city on the Arkansas River in western Kansas population 26,658

2

city west of Detroit in southeastern Michigan population 27,692