gardener
Syllables: gar·den·erUK/ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə//ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/
gardener noun: one who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
Noun
gardener (plural gardeners)
- 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- A 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.2014, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, page 329
Proper noun capitalized: Gardener
Gardener
- A surname originating as an occupation.
gardener meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
gardener in Hindi
- one who gardens
- माली mālī, बाग़बान bāġbān
gardener in Tamil
- தோட்டக்காரர்
gardener in Marathi
- one who gardens
- माळी māḷī
gardener in Urdu
- one who gardens
- مالی mālī, باغْبان bāġbān, بُسْتانی bustānī
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- gardener in Bengali
- মালী mali, উদ্যানপাল uddanpal
- gardener in Telugu
- తోటమాలి tōṭamāli
- gardener in Malayalam
- തോട്ടക്കാരൻ, ആരാമപാലകൻ, ഉദ്യാനപാലകൻ, തോട്ടം തൊഴിലാളി
- gardener in Kannada
- ತೋಟಗಾರ, ಮಾಲಿ, ವನಪಾಲಕ, ತೋಟಿಗ
- gardener in Punjabi
- مالی mālī, ਮਾਲੀ mālī, ਬਾਗ਼ਬਾਨ bāġbān
- gardener in Gujarati
- માળી māḷī, કુંજડો kuñjḍo
- gardener in Sanskrit
- मालिन् mālin
- gardener in Sinhala
- උයන්පල්ලා uyanpallā
- gardener in Nepali
- बागवान
- gardener in Pashto
- باغبان bāǧbān, باغوان bāǧwān, مالي mālī, بڼوال baṇwāl
- gardener in Tagalog
- hardinero, hardinera
- gardener in Arabic
- بُسْتَانِيّ bustāniyy, بُسْتَانِيَّة bustāniyya, جَنَائِنِيّ janāʔiniyy, جَنَائِنِيَّة janāʔiniyya
- gardener in Indonesian
- tukang kebun
- gardener in Thai
- ชาวสวน chaao-sǔuan, คนสวน kon-sǔuan
- gardener in Vietnamese
- người làm vườn
- gardener in Myanmar
- မာလီ mali, ဥယျာဉ်မှူး u.yyanyhmu:
Examples of gardener in a sentence
- He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.
- We can't employ a gardener as well as a handyman. Think of the expense!
- He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.
Forms of gardener
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gardeners |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Gardner |
| alternative form | Gardiner |
Origin of gardener
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").
Occupational surname from gardener.
Words formed from gardener
Phrases with gardener
Questions about gardener
- What does gardener mean?
- Gardener means one who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
- What is gardener in Hindi?
- Gardener in Hindi is माली (mālī), बाग़बान (bāġbān). See Gardener meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is gardener?
- Gardener can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gardener?
- Gardener is pronounced /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of gardener?
- The plural of gardener is gardeners.
Words near gardener in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gardener (page history and authors); Gardener (page history and authors); gardener (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gardener (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gardener (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مالی (Punjabi) (page history and authors); કુંજડો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); gardener (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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