gardener
See also: Gardener
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/, /ˈɡɑɹd.nɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə/, /ˈɡɑːd.nə/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: gar‧den‧er
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
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- 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.
Derived terms
- landscape gardener
- market gardener
- uphill gardener
Translations
one who gardens
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Anagrams
- deranger, garnered, rangered
Middle English
Alternative forms
- gardenere, gardyner, gardynere, gardiner, garthener, garthynere
Etymology
From Old Northern French gardinier; equivalent to gardyn + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡarˈdinər(ə)/, /ˈɡardənər(ə)/
Noun
gardener (plural gardineris)
- gardener (one who tends a garden)
- (figurative) A tender of one's heart.
Descendants
- English: gardener
- Scots: gairdener, gairdner, gairner
References
- “gardiner, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-16.