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Gardener

//ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation.
Noun
  1. 1
    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"

  2. 2
    someone who takes care of a garden wordnet
  3. 3
    A coachman who drives badly. derogatory, obsolete, slang

    "Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman."

  4. 4
    someone employed to work in a garden wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Occupational surname from gardener.

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