gardening

English

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.
- 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, OCLC 83344188:
  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.
(by extension) Any process of care, maintenance, or curation, especially digitally.
wiki gardening
digital gardening
- 2008, Mark S. Choate, Professional Wikis, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 171:
  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. Use this page to ensure that all pages are categorized.
- 2020 September 3, Tanya Basu, “Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet”, in MIT Technology Review‎:
  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.
(cricket) The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with his bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps.

Derived terms

atomic gardening
cardening
forest gardening
gardening leave
gardening leave
landscape gardening
market gardening

Translations

the care of a garden

Albanian: kopshtari (sq) f
Arabic: بَسْتَنَة‎ f (bastana)
Azerbaijani: bağçılıq
Armenian: այգեգործություն (hy) (aygegorcutʿyun)
Belarusian: садо́ўніцтва n (sadóŭnictva), садаво́дства n (sadavódstva)
Bulgarian: градина́рство n (gradinárstvo)
Catalan: jardineria f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 园艺 (zh) (yuányì), 園藝 (zh) (yuányì)
Czech: zahradnictví (cs) n
Danish: havearbejde (da) n, havebrug n
Dutch: tuinieren (nl) n, tuinbouw (nl) m
Estonian: aiandus
Finnish: puutarhanhoito (fi)
French: jardinage (fr) m, horticulture (fr) f
Galician: xardinaxe (gl) f
Georgian: მებაღეობა (mebaɣeoba)
German: Gartenarbeit (de) f, Gärtnerei (de) f, Gartenbau (de) m
Greek: κηπουρική (el) f (kipourikí)
Gujarati: બાગકામ (bāgkām)
Hebrew: גינון / גִּנּוּן‎ (he) m (ginún)
Hindi: बाग़बानी f (bāġbānī)
Hungarian: kertészkedés (hu), kertészet (hu)
Icelandic: garðyrkja f
Irish: garraíodóireacht
Italian: giardinaggio (it) m
Japanese: 庭いじり (にわいじり, niwa-ijiri), ガーデニング (ja) (gādeningu), 庭仕事 (にわしごと, niwa-shigoto); 土いじり (つちいじり, tsuchi-ijiri) (for leisure):, 園芸 (ja) (えんげい, engei)
Kazakh: бағбаншылық (bağbanşylyq), баушылық (bauşylyq)
Korean: 원예(園藝) (ko) (wonye)
Kyrgyz: багбанчылык (ky) (bagbançılık)
Latvian: dārzkopība f
Lithuanian: sodininkystė f
Macedonian: градинарство n (gradinarstvo)
Maori: mahi māra
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hagebruk n, hagearbeid n
Nynorsk: hagebruk n
Persian: باغبانی‎ (fa) (bâğbâni)
Polish: ogrodnictwo (pl) n, badylarstwo n (colloquial, derogatory)
Portuguese: jardinagem (pt) f
Romanian: grădinărit (ro) n, horticultură (ro) f
Russian: садово́дство (ru) n (sadovódstvo)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: цвећа́рство n, цвјећа́рство n, вртла́рство n, хортикулту́ра f
Roman: cvećárstvo n, cvjećárstvo n, vrtlárstvo (sh) n, hortikultúra (sh) f
Slovak: záhradníctvo (sk) n
Slovene: vrtnarjenje n, vrtnarstvo n, hortikultura f
Spanish: jardinería (es)
Swedish: trädgårdsodling c, hortikultur (sv) c
Tajik: боғдори (boġdori), боғпарварӣ (boġparvarī), боғшинонӣ (boġšinonī), боғбонӣ (boġbonī), рустанипарварӣ (rustaniparvarī)
Tatar: бакчачылык (tt) (baqçaçılıq)
Telugu: తోటపని (te) (tōṭapani)
Thai: การจัดสวน
Turkmen: bagbançylyk (tk)
Ukrainian: садівни́цтво n (sadivnýctvo)
Uyghur: باغۋەنچىلىك‎ (baghwenchilik)
Uzbek: bogʻdorchilik (uz)
Urdu: بَاغْبَانِی‎‎ f (bāġbānī)
Welsh: garddio (cy)
Yiddish: גערטנערײַ‎ n (gertneray)

Verb

gardening

present participle of garden
He had been gardening all day.

Anagrams

dangering, deranging, gandering, grenading