gardener

nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə//
United Kingdom//ˈɡɑːd.nə//
United States//ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ//
United States//ˈɡɑɹd.nɚ//

One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

noun

1
One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
"Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena
At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
2
obsoleteA coachman who drives badly.
Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman.

Etymology

From Middle English gardener, either calqued or loaned from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French gardinier. See garden, and compare German Gärtner (“gardener”), which is equivalent to a derivative of the German cognate to English garden, Garten (“garden”), + -er. Displaced native Old English wyrtweard (effectively "wortward").

Forms

plural: gardeners

Garcia · A surname from Spanish of Spanish and Portuguese origin.garden · An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants,…Garden · A surname.

gardener · One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

Gardener · A surname originating as an occupation.gardening · The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly…Gardner · A surname originating as an occupation.

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