Gardener Meaning
/ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
nounA coachman who drives badly.
Sentence Examples
I had the gardener plant some trees.
The gardener planted a rose tree in the middle of the garden.
He is an amateur gardener, but his flowers are beautiful.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ planted new seeds in the garden beds every spring.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The professional ____ carefully pruned the hedges to give the estate's landscape a neat and tidy appearance.
Word Origin & History
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").
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ planted new seeds in the garden beds every spring.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The professional ____ carefully pruned the hedges to give the estate's landscape a neat and tidy appearance.