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gardeners

gardeners is the plural of gardener.

Meaning of gardener

Noun

gardener (plural gardeners)

  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
  2. (derogatory, obsolete, slang) 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

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Phrases with gardeners

Questions about gardeners

What is gardeners the plural of?
Gardeners is the plural of gardener.

Words near gardeners in the dictionary

  1. gardener snakes
  2. gardener's delight
  3. gardener's eye
  4. gardeneress
  5. gardeneresses
  6. gardeners
  7. gardeners' garters
  8. gardenership
  9. gardenerships
  10. Gardenese
  11. gardenesque

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