gardener

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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

2. 2
   noun

   A coachman who drives badly.

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

3. 3
   noun

   someone who takes care of a garden

4. 4
   noun

   someone employed to work in a garden

5. 5
   name

   A surname originating as an occupation.

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 (effectively "wortward").