GARDENER

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who takes care of a garden

Synonyms:

gardener; nurseryman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gardener" is a kind of...):

horticulturist; plantsman (an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gardener"):

transplanter (a gardener who moves plants to new locations)

Derivation:

garden (work in the garden)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone employed to work in a garden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gardener" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gardener"):

groundkeeper; groundskeeper; groundsman (someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field))

hedger (a gardener who takes care of and trims hedges)

Derivation:

garden (work in the garden)

Credits

Context examples:

He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But by this time we had all long ceased to pay any particular notice to the song; it was new, that night, to nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up for a moment quite angrily before he went on with his talk to old Taylor, the gardener, on a new cure for the rheumatics.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The old gentleman liked the fun, and amused himself by sending odd bundles, mysterious messages, and funny telegrams, and his gardener, who was smitten with Hannah's charms, actually sent a love letter to Jo's care.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture they had just been examining, been insufficient to assure the other two that they now saw Mr. Darcy, the gardener's expression of surprise, on beholding his master, must immediately have told it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,—and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She had a turn for traffic, and a marked propensity for saving; shown not only in the vending of eggs and chickens, but also in driving hard bargains with the gardener about flower-roots, seeds, and slips of plants; that functionary having orders from Mrs. Reed to buy of his young lady all the products of her parterre she wished to sell: and Eliza would have sold the hair off her head if she could have made a handsome profit thereby.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Morning decidedly the best time—never tired—every sort good—hautboy infinitely superior—no comparison—the others hardly eatable—hautboys very scarce—Chili preferred—white wood finest flavour of all—price of strawberries in London—abundance about Bristol—Maple Grove—cultivation—beds when to be renewed—gardeners thinking exactly different—no general rule—gardeners never to be put out of their way—delicious fruit—only too rich to be eaten much of—inferior to cherries—currants more refreshing—only objection to gathering strawberries the stooping—glaring sun—tired to death—could bear it no longer—must go and sit in the shade.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

His first action was to send Mortimer, the gardener, for the local police.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Joe did not appear for that function, and when Martin heard the gardener remark that most likely he was ripping the slats off the bar, Martin understood.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He took them to the gardener, and said: “I present them to your children, they can play with them.”