gardener

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who grows plants and takes care of a garden, as a job or hobby.

   The gardener spent the morning trimming the hedges.

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").

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