Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who works in or tends a garden for pleasure or hire.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who cultivates a garden; specifically, one whose regular occupation or calling consists in laying out, cultivating, or tending gardens.
Wiktionary
- n. One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone employed to work in a garden
- n. someone who takes care of a garden
Etymologies
- to garden + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.”
“I think our gardener is also allergic since he ran when he say them. tonyburton”
“HEMMER: On another topic over the weekend, you wrote about Saddam Hussein and his confinement, you describe as a gardener at this point.”
“Lieutenant Hume told me he was the gardener's son," she protested, "or at least he called the gardener's wife 'Mother Susan.”
“Corruption! 'and they called the gardener, and had it buried in the earth.”
“Prince was carried by the current into a rivulet which flowed through the royal gardens; and, as the Intendant of the pleasure grounds and pleasaunces chanced to walk along the bank, by the decree of Destiny he caught sight of the basket floating by, and he called a gardener, bidding him lay hold of it and bring it to him that he might see what was therein.”
“Anastasia was left alone at the cottage; and it happened by no means seldom that she was altogether alone, for the negro whom they called the gardener would go to her father’s place at”
“NEARY: Well, I was surprised to read that she was better known as a gardener, actually, in her lifetime than as a poet.”
“But the most gorgeous part of this plant for a gardener is the flower.”
“At $60 a month, she knows the gardener is a ridiculous frill; she could buy a push mower and take care of the lawn herself quite easily.”
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Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Last Names That Are Professions
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Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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Scriptie: The Two Towers
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Hey kids! What do YOU want to be when you grow up?!
Reprint edition, Devon: Latimer Trend & Co., Ltd., 1969. Full original citation (you'd better grab a drink and sit down) is:
...woollen draper, wood monger, wood cutter, wine cooper, woolsted man, wool card maker, wool comber, wool stapler, wire drawer, whalebone-man, whip maker, weaver and 343 more...
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