Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who owns or cultivates an orchard.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who cultivates fruit in orchards: as, an experienced orchardist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who cultivates an orchard.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who owns or operates an orchard.

Etymologies

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From orchard +‎ -ist.

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Examples

  • Billy Hunt for The Wall Street Journal Seventh-generation orchardist Tom Burford, left, explained the different attributes of these historical varieties, some of which were grown by Jefferson at Monticello.

    'Heirloom' Apples Stage a Comeback 2010

  • Now a documentary filmmaker, she and her husband, an orchardist, divide their time between Venice, California, and the house and orchards she inherited in Ojai.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • They twisted the arms of every rancher, orchardist, restaurant and hotel owner between here and the Canadian border—everybody who was making a profit on migrant labor—to put this clinic together.

    Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

  • He actually went back and forth between nature and "civilization" as a talented inventor and industrial worker, a writer, and even an orchardist (he ran his father-in-law's orchard).

    Maria Rodale: A Desperate Need for Nature 2009

  • Block Eight poet-orchardist who believes it might rain.

    Some Choice Isn’t It Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

  • After visiting Ceylon, Dorrington settled near London, and published a misleading account of allegedly exotic colonial hard-ships as an orchardist, which Stephens in Australia exposed and derided.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Steve 2009

  • Block Eight poet-orchardist who believes it might rain.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

  • Andy Mariani, a San Jose orchardist who grows the best peaches in America, credits a nectarine given to him by his mother when he was dying from a debilitating autoimmune disease with giving him the will to survive.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Andy Mariani, a San Jose orchardist who grows the best peaches in America, credits a nectarine given to him by his mother when he was dying from a debilitating autoimmune disease with giving him the will to survive.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • I had a lucky break a couple of years ago down here when a local orchardist planted some Spanish hazelnut trees.

    At My Table 2008

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  • Courier-Mail: 'The Johnsons are angry, arguing that the State Government is bending over backwards to appease environmentalists whose supporters last year successfully lobbied to stop orchardists from shooting bats.'

    January 26, 2009