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gardener

/ˈɡɑːdənə/GAHR-duh-nur
/ˈɡɑɹdənɚ/GAHR-duh-nur

Meaningone who gardens

Common meaning: a person who looks after a garden

Journey through time

  1. Old Frenchgardinsource
  2. Middle Englishgardinsource
  3. Englishgarden‘a piece of ground for growing plants’
  4. Englishformed in English from gardengardener‘a person who looks after a garden’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from garden + -er.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), GARDEN, p.228 · scan

Source words

  • gardin Old French · source word “an enclosure”

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