Meanings
gardener1
plural gardeners
- 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
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At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC - derogatoryobsoleteslangA 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.
2014, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, page 329
Gardener2
Origin
gardener · noun
- Old Northern Frenchgardinier
- Middle Englishgardener
- Englishgardener
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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Afrikaans tuinier, howenier
- tuinierone who gardens
- howenierone who gardens
Ancient Greek κηπουρός, κηπεύς
- κηπουρός (kēpourós)one who gardens
- κηπεύς (kēpeús)one who gardens
Arabic بُسْتَانِيّ, بُسْتَانِيَّة
- بُسْتَانِيّ (bustāniyy)one who gardens
- بُسْتَانِيَّة (bustāniyya)one who gardens
- جَنَائِنِيّ (janāʔiniyy)one who gardens
- جَنَائِنِيَّة (janāʔiniyya)one who gardens
Basque lorezain
- lorezainone who gardens
Bengali মালী, উদ্যানপাল
- মালী (mali)one who gardens
- উদ্যানপাল (uddanpal)one who gardens
Bulgarian градина́р, градина́рка
- градина́р (gradinár)one who gardens
- градина́рка (gradinárka)one who gardens
Catalan jardiner, jardinera
- jardinerone who gardens
- jardineraone who gardens
Chinese Mandarin 園丁 /园丁, 花匠
- 園丁 /园丁 (yuándīng)one who gardens
- 花匠 (huājiàng)one who gardens
Czech zahradník, zahradnice
- zahradníkone who gardens
- zahradniceone who gardens
Danish gartner
- gartnerone who gardens
Dutch hovenier, tuinier
- hovenierone who gardens
- tuinierone who gardens
- tuinmanone who gardens
- tuinvrouwone who gardens
- tuinliedenone who gardens
Esperanto ĝardenisto, ĝardenistino
- ĝardenistoone who gardens
- ĝardenistinoone who gardens
Estonian aednik
- aednikone who gardens
Finnish puutarhuri
- puutarhurione who gardens
French jardinier, jardinière
- jardinierone who gardens
- jardinièreone who gardens
German Gärtner, Gärtnerin
- Gärtnerone who gardens
- Gärtnerinone who gardens
Greek κηπουρός
- κηπουρός (kipourós)one who gardens
Hebrew גַּנָּן
- גַּנָּן (ganán)one who gardens
Hindi माली, बाग़बान
- माली (mālī)one who gardens
- बाग़बान (bāġbān)one who gardens
Hungarian kertész
- kertészone who gardens
Indonesian tukang kebun
- tukang kebunone who gardens
Italian giardiniere, giardiniera
- giardiniereone who gardens
- giardinieraone who gardens
Japanese 園丁, 庭師
- 園丁 (entei)one who gardens
- 庭師 (niwashi)one who gardens
Korean 원예사, 정원사
- 원예사 (wonyesa)one who gardens
- 정원사 (jeong'wonsa)one who gardens
Latin hortulānus, olitor
- hortulānusone who gardens
- olitorone who gardens
- olitrīxone who gardens
Latvian dārznieks, dārzniece
- dārznieksone who gardens
- dārznieceone who gardens
Lithuanian sodininkas, sodininkė
- sodininkasone who gardens
- sodininkėone who gardens
Māori kaimahi māra, paruauru
- kaimahi māraone who gardens
- paruauruone who gardens
- kaingaki māraone who gardens
Norwegian Bokmål gartner
- gartnerone who gardens
Polish ogrodnik, ogrodniczka
- ogrodnikone who gardens
- ogrodniczkaone who gardens
- badylarzone who gardens
- badylarkaone who gardens
Portuguese jardineiro, jardineira
- jardineiroone who gardens
- jardineiraone who gardens
Romanian grădinar, grădinăreasă
- grădinarone who gardens
- grădinăreasăone who gardens
Russian садо́вник, садово́д
- садо́вник (sadóvnik)one who gardens
- садово́д (sadovód)one who gardens
- садо́вница (sadóvnica)one who gardens
Scottish Gaelic gàirnealair, gàrradair
- gàirnealairone who gardens
- gàrradairone who gardens
Slovak záhradník, záhradníčka
- záhradníkone who gardens
- záhradníčkaone who gardens
Spanish jardinero, jardinera
- jardineroone who gardens
- jardineraone who gardens
Swahili mtunza bustani
- mtunza bustanione who gardens
Swedish trädgårdsmästare, trädgårdsodlare
- trädgårdsmästareone who gardens
- trädgårdsodlareone who gardens
Tagalog hardinero, hardinera
- hardineroone who gardens
- hardineraone who gardens
Thai ชาวสวน, คนสวน
- ชาวสวน (chaao-sǔuan)one who gardens
- คนสวน (kon-sǔuan)one who gardens
Turkish bahçıvan
- bahçıvanone who gardens
Ukrainian садівни́к, садівни́ця
- садівни́к (sadivnýk)one who gardens
- садівни́ця (sadivnýcja)one who gardens
Urdu مالی, باغْبان
- مالی (mālī)one who gardens
- باغْبان (bāġbān)one who gardens
- بُسْتانی (bustānī)one who gardens
Vietnamese người làm vườn
- người làm vườnone who gardens
Welsh garddwr
- garddwrone who gardens
Yiddish גערטנער, גערטנערין
- גערטנער (gertner)one who gardens
- גערטנערין (gertnerin)one who gardens
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gardener. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gardener
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