Etymology

gardener

gar·den·er
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Today it means: One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden. Full definition →

Middle English gardener ← Old Northern French gardinier
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gardener · noun1

  1. Old Northern French · derived fromgardinier
  2. Middle English · inherited fromgardener
  3. English todaygardener

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 · proper noun2

Occupational surname from gardener.

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