gardener

B2 Topic:People & Society

Also spelled gard’ner and gard’ners

US /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/ UK /ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə/ See IPA manual

Freq #7954

Meanings

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who grows plants... nurseryman

Word family

Forms gardeners

Derived forms gardeneressgardenershipnongardenerundergardener

Common collocations

landscape gardener Noun + noun

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").

gardener Middle English gardinier fro-nor

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# gardener

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə/
**Frequency rank:** 7954

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

## Examples
- The gardener spent the morning trimming the hedges.

## Derived Forms
- gardeneress
- gardenership
- nongardener
- undergardener

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: gardener
- Root: gardinier

## 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").

## AI Etymology
Gardener comes 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"). In current use, the main sense is “A person who grows plants and takes care of a garden, as a job or hobby”.

## Topics
- People & Society

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