Other forms: gardeners
A gardener is somebody who looks after plants, flowers and lawns, by trade or by hobby. A keen gardener, the head gardener, employ a gardener.
In Britain the word covers both the professional and the enthusiast, and the context decides which is meant. Landscape gardener designs and builds gardens rather than maintaining them, and market gardener grows produce for sale. Note gardening, the activity, which is the country's most popular pastime by most measures, and green fingers, the British phrase for a natural gift with plants — green thumb in America.
1noungardenerSomebody who looks after plants, flowers and lawns.
“The gardener mowed the lawn and trimmed the hedges.”
gardener is a person who tends plants.
Old North French gardinier comes from a Germanic word for an enclosure, the same root as yard and garden. A garden was originally simply a fenced piece of ground, and the gardener was the person who worked inside the fence.
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gardinier
Middle English
gardener
English, today
gardener
Built from
From Middle English gardener, either calqued or loaned from Anglo-Norman - and fro-nor gardinier. See garden, and compare Gärtner (“gardener”), which is equivalent to a derivative of the German cognate to garden, Garten (“garden”), + -er. Displaced native wyrtweard (effectively "wortward").
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA