Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The laying out and cultivation of gardens; garden-work; horticulture.
Wiktionary
- adj. describes items or actions connected with the garden.
- n. horticulture
- n. the process or action of cultivating of the soil particularly in a garden; the care of a garden.
- v. present participle of garden.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the cultivation of plants
Etymologies
- garden + -ing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I keep the gardening clothes in the ´gardening drawer´ at the bottom of my chest of drawers.”
“Nevertheless, what a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”
“One of a slew of DIY gardening currents, such as permaculture (design of highly sustainable ecosystems), urban homesteading, composting and free fruit movement, guerrilla gardening is a response to dwindling green space, limited land and suspicions about food sources, say experts.”
Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area « Isegoria
“Whether as collective green graffiti or as an attempt to reclaim the neighborhood and make improvements for all, guerrilla gardening is a form of eco-activism that is catching on despite its controversial methods.”
GUERILLA GARDENING: Strategies for Greening the Hood | Inhabitat
“The 'gardening' is done by the park, and there is always a family style little restaurant nearby.”
“At 75 y.o. and given that she actually has an interest in gardening, she is of an age set of Americans for whom this sort of thing would not have cause a kerfuffle.”
“Big problem with self-sufficient gardening is fertilizer.”
“Part of the “Thrifty Fun” web site, Gardening With Kids is packed with helpful suggestions and ideas to interest and involve young people in gardening such as giving kids their own space, using kid sized tools using child friendly themes.”
“What it means for me right now is that I've sprung an interest in gardening ... or at least growing things.”
“On a delightful site about gardening is my cute little Delft vase with my favorite flowers in it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gardening’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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REGI - urban development
urban planning, urban redevelopment, legal base, metropolitan area, periphery, strategic plan, neighborhood plan, regulatory and in..., slums, decay, suburbanization, urbanization and 467 more...
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Test words
vacation, tourist, tourist office, travel, read, newspaper, book, magazine, television, music, radio, nightclub and 68 more...
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i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gardening.
GHibbs My adjectival use: 'It is a gardening magazine.' Aug 22, 2011
sarra Sorry to be all Web 2.0, but I'm annoyed I can't create garde.ning.com! Jan 1, 2009