gardener

CEFRB1

/ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who grows and cares for plants.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A coachman who drives badly.

Examples

  • He is an amateur gardener, but his flowers are beautiful.

  • I had the gardener plant some trees.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.

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

More examples

In context

  • The gardener planted a rose tree in the middle of the garden.

  • "Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena

  • Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman.

Quick test

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The blank planted new seeds in the garden beds every spring.

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Origin

noun

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").