gardener

Etymology

From Middle English gardener, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French gardinier. See garden.

Pronunciation

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Noun

gardener (plural gardeners)

1. One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 19, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.

Anagrams

• deranger, garnered

Alternative forms

• gardenere, gardyner, gardynere, gardiner, garthener, garthynere

Etymology

From Old Northern French gardinier; equivalent to gardyn +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡarˈdinər(ə)/, /ˈɡardənər(ə)/

Noun

gardener (plural gardineris)

1. gardener (one who tends a garden)
2. (figuratively) A tender of one's heart.