- a place shaded by trees or shrubs or, esp., by vines on a latticework; bower
- Obs.
- a garden or lawn
- an orchard
Origin of arbor
Middle English erber from Old French erbier, herbier from Late Latin herbarium, herbarium
A grape arbor.
The definition of an arbor is an area that is shaded with trees or with framework that has climbing plants on it.
An example of an arbor is a latticework garden frame covered with vines over a patio.
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arbor
noun
pl. ar′bo·res·Bot. a tree, in contrast to a shrub
Origin of arbor
L, a tree, beam: see arduous- a shaft; beam
- a spindle; axle
- a round bar that holds a cutting tool or an article being turned on a lathe
Origin of arbor
French arbre, tree, axis from Classical Latin arbor: see arborWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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arbor
noun
A shady resting place in a garden or park, often made of latticework on which plants such as climbing shrubs or vines are grown.
Origin of arbor
Middle English herber from Old French erbier garden from erbe herb ; see herb .noun
- An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
- A bar for supporting cutting tools.
- A spindle of a wheel, as in watches and clocks.
- pl. ar·bo·res, A tree, as opposed to a shrub.
Origin of arbor
French arbre from Latin arbor treeTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural arbors or arbores)
- arboreal
- arborescent
- arboreous
- arbor vitae
- herb
Origin
Middle English arbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herbarium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The phonetic change to ar- was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
Noun
(plural arbors or arbores)
Anagrams
- borra
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Sentence Examples
- This is the Eastern or Chinese arbor vitae.
- Ann Arbor is best known as the seat of the university of Michigan, opened in 1837.
- As an evergreen with very good results, and so might the American arbor vitae if the natural soil presented no obstacle.
- Only this time her focus spread out to other things; the arbor of forget-me-nots where they would exchange vows, the cake with its three tiers of cascading flowers.
- The college was incorporated in 1835 as Spring Arbor Seminary, and in 1839 by an amended charter was located at Albion, where it was first opened in 1843 under the name of the Wesleyan Seminary of Albion; in 1849 it became the Wesleyan Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute, with power to grant degrees to women only; but in 1861 the present name was adopted and the college was permitted to grant degrees to men and women.
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