Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who works in or tends a garden for pleasure or hire.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who cultivates a garden; specifically, one whose regular occupation or calling consists in laying out, cultivating, or tending gardens.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone employed to work in a garden
  • noun someone who takes care of a garden

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to garden + -er

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Examples

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

  • I'm not entirely in control of what goes on here at my property: the gardener is an animal lover.

    Lake Levels 2008

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