gardening
Syllables: gar·den·ing/ˈɡɑː.dən.ɪŋ/US/ˈɡɑɹ.dən.ɪŋ/
gardening noun: the process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture. Also the present participle and gerund of garden.
Noun
gardening (usually uncountable, plural gardenings)
- The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.
- His hobby was gardening.
- Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale.1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 1
- Any process of care, maintenance, or curation, especially digitally.
- wiki gardening
- digital gardening
- The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with their bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps.
- The sowing of mines in water from low altitude.
Also used as
gardening is also the present participle and gerund of garden.
gardening meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
gardening in Hindi
- the care of a garden
- बाग़बानी bāġbānī
gardening in Tamil
- தோட்டம் வளர்ப்பு
gardening in Marathi
- बागकाम, बागकामाची
gardening in Urdu
- the care of a garden
- بَاغْبَانِی bāġbānī
More languagesFewer languages
- gardening in Telugu
- తోటపని tōṭapani
- gardening in Malayalam
- പൂന്തോട്ടപരിപാലനം
- gardening in Punjabi
- ਬਾਗਬਾਨੀ bāgbānī
- gardening in Gujarati
- બાગકામ bāgkām
- gardening in Nepali
- बागबानी
- gardening in Arabic
- بَسْتَنَة bastana
- gardening in Persian
- باغبانی bâġbâni
- gardening in Thai
- การจัดสวน
Examples of gardening in a sentence
- Warm ambient air, loiterings abroad, gardenings, flowers to take about, and preserves to make, soothed the wicked imp to slumber in the parish of Hollingford in summer-time.1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter XLVI, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith...
- Several special pages help with the wiki gardening task:¶ ❑ Uncategorized pages (Special:Uncategorizedpages): These are pages that do not have one or more categories assigned.2008, Mark S. Choate, Professional Wikis, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 171:
- Tom Critchlow, a consultant who has been cultivating his digital garden for years, spells out the main difference between old-school blogging and digital gardening.2020 September 3, Tanya Basu, “Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet”, in MIT Technology Review:
Forms of gardening
| plural | gardenings |
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Origin of gardening
From garden + -ing.
Words formed from gardening
Questions about gardening
- What does gardening mean?
- Gardening means the process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.
- What is gardening in Hindi?
- Gardening in Hindi is बाग़बानी (bāġbānī). See Gardening meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use gardening in a sentence?
- Warm ambient air, loiterings abroad, gardenings, flowers to take about, and preserves to make, soothed the wicked imp to slumber in the parish of Hollingford in summer-time.
- What part of speech is gardening?
- Gardening is a noun.
- How do you pronounce gardening?
- Gardening is pronounced /ˈɡɑː.dən.ɪŋ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of gardening?
- The plural of gardening is gardenings.
Words near gardening in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gardening (page history and authors); gardening (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gardening (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gardening (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gardening (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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