gardener
/ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.49 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
name
A surname originating as an occupation.
Example Sentences
- ""Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena"
- "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."
- "Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman."
Etymology
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 (effectively "wortward").
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/
- British English: /ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə/