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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gardener
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
celebrity chef/gardener etc
gardener/cakemaker/chef etc extraordinaire
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
amateur
▪ Their nature is multifarious, but they are mainly from other professionals in other organizations or from informed amateur botanists or gardeners.
▪ They pass on basic gardening skills to Ray Gravel, the ex-Rugby Union international and keen amateur gardener.
▪ New series providing accessible introductions for amateur gardeners.
head
▪ It's another relic, still in use, from the head gardener Charles Beckett's days.
▪ Since Beaumont's days, there have been just ten head gardeners down the generations.
keen
▪ At home he was a keen gardener winning many prizes for his efforts.
▪ Mummy is a keen gardener, and his father loves flowers.
▪ They pass on basic gardening skills to Ray Gravel, the ex-Rugby Union international and keen amateur gardener.
▪ He was a very keen gardener.
▪ Finally, for keen gardeners there is the opportunity to recreate at home what you have seen in National Trust gardens.
▪ He is a keen gardener, and expressed great pleasure at the choice of present.
▪ Charles Wade was also a keen gardener.
▪ A speechreader was chatting about roses to a keen gardener.
■ NOUN
landscape
▪ On the forecourt stood a horse-drawn van on which was painted the name of a firm of landscape gardeners in flowery script.
▪ From the mid-1850s Milner worked as an independent landscape gardener.
▪ His brother Bartholomew was a horticulturist and landscape gardener in Walham Green, Fulham.
▪ Oh, it is the landscape gardeners and a very nice job they're doing of it.
▪ During the last week, landscape gardeners had begun a massive clearance of the overgrown grounds.
market
▪ First came the farmers and then more specialist cultivators: market gardeners, nurserymen and florists.
▪ As an innkeeper and market gardener near Sinope, Phocas would give his excess crops to the poor.
▪ Once home, Brian got a job as a market gardener and asked Jean to marry him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be something of a gardener/an expert etc
▪ Alfred Walter is something of an expert on Viennese music particularly that of the Johann Strauss era.
▪ In his own way he is something of an expert on the private lives of actresses.
▪ Richard Holmes was something of an expert at the game, but he ended up as a down-and-out by the end.
jobbing builder/gardener/printer etc
▪ He was a jobbing gardener by trade.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As an innkeeper and market gardener near Sinope, Phocas would give his excess crops to the poor.
▪ But, as every good gardener knows, healthy plant growth depends very much on the fertility and structure of the soil.
▪ Commercial interests like Time-Life and Burpee have established free sites aimed at gardeners.
▪ It's another relic, still in use, from the head gardener Charles Beckett's days.
▪ On the Move While we are still all romantics at heart we gardeners are also practical.
▪ Some gardeners control black rot with sulfur sprays.
▪ Some shade trees provide their own winter show, and gardeners should count themselves lucky to have them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gardener

Gardener \Gar"den*er\, n. One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gardener

late 13c. (early 12c. as a surname), from Old North French *gardinier (Old French jardineor "gardener," 12c., Modern French jardinier), from gardin "(kitchen) garden" (see garden (n.)). Compare German Gärtner. An Old English word for it was wyrtweard, literally "plant-guard."

Wiktionary
gardener

n. One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

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WordNet
gardener

  1. n. someone who takes care of a garden [syn: nurseryman]

  2. someone employed to work in a garden

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Wikipedia
Gardener (comics)

The Gardener (Ord Zyonz) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as one of the known Elders of the Universe in the Marvel Universe.

Gardener

A gardener is someone who practices gardening, either professionally or as a hobby.

Gardener (surname)

Gardener is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Daryl Gardener (born 1973), US football player
  • Helen H. Gardener (1853–1925), US writer and activist
  • Jason Gardener (born 1975), English sprinter
  • John Gardener (disambiguation)
  • Mark Gardener (born 1969), English musician
  • Nico Gardener (1908–1989), British bridge player
  • Nicola Gardener (born 1949), British bridge player
  • Thomas Gardener (died 1408/9), English politician
  • Walson Gardener (born 1932), US NASCAR driver
Gardener (disambiguation)

A gardener is a person involved in gardening.

Gardener may also refer to:

  • Gardener (surname)
  • Gardener (comics), Marvel Comics character
  • The Gardener (disambiguation)
  • Gardener 1NT, contract bridge convention

Usage examples of "gardener".

One July as he was walking in a suburban street which ended in some dusty fields, Agaric heard groans coming from a moss-grown well that had been abandoned by the gardeners.

Gardener and Anjemalti bent together over the Arachnid, exploring of this and the other.

With that she was gone and the Gardener and Anjemalti bent together over the Arachnid, exploring of this and the other.

Tissaphernes, whirling quickly, slashed it viciously through the air almost faster than the eye could see, slicing off the head of the guard who had struck Asteria, as a gardener lops off a wayward branch from his fruit tree.

He wanted to know about the grafting technique my gardeners had been using with success on evergreen shrubs, how much sun was advisable on tulip beds, what proportion of cow-dung was added to the compost used for the auriculas, how much milk my cows yielded.

Old Derreck, their gardener and horseman, said to Ava as he pushed a thick hand through a shock of gray hair.

I told him about the gardener and the Black and Tans and the bogmen and their bony arses and being locked in the boilerhouse and puffing fags and talking to the saints and St Teresa.

I having no jacket, they believed my tale that I was a son of a gardener working for Bunnia Chirol Varma at his house by the waterside.

Kheda reminded Caid discreetly once they were out of earshot of the gardener.

And it was a chore finding his father in such a mammoth place, when there were usually a half dozen gardeners also present.

I venture the conjecture that owing in part, or principally, to the fact European gardeners have never had the motive, and, consequently, have never developed the full capacity of the drumhead as exampled by the fine varieties raised in this country.

With a laurel wreath woven by no mortal hand shall she at Reims engarland happily the gardener of the Lily, named Charles, son of Charles.

Julie was at the entrance of the garden, where she was attentively watching Penelon, who, entering with zeal into his profession of gardener, was very busy grafting some Bengal roses.

Some of the espaliered fruit trees could be retained, and it will require the attention of a full-time gardener.

The gardener felt that he was not wanted, so, after exhorting the widow to be calm and to come to him if she needed advice or help, he went away.