gardener
[gahrd-ner]
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Origin of gardener
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Contemporary Examples
As Ward points out, there is some reason to think Lewis would actually have been thrilled—the word of his gardener Paxford.
All were killed in the ensuing gun battle, along with a gardener and eight security staffers.
He is older, a gardener by trade, and intends to cross into Texas.
Gael García Bernal on the Human Drama Behind Anonymous Migrant DeadGael Garcia Bernal
January 26, 2013
A Better Life is about an undocumented Mexican gardener in Los Angeles and his 14-year-old son.
He had spent several years as a gravedigger and gardener at a cemetery in Germany before returning to Puglia.
Historical Examples
Then the gardener gave his message, to which the landlord replied, "It is all right."
Rico and WiseliJohanna Spyri
Presently the gardener's boy from Mrs. Menotti's came along.
Rico and WiseliJohanna Spyri
"It is the moths, sir," said the gardener's wife, who had not yet removed from the house.
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
A gardener, with a boy assistant, was at work in the grounds when Eudora entered.
The Yates PrideMary E. Wilkins Freeman
Every boy should learn the use of tools, the gardener's or the carpenter's, or both.
gardener
- a person who works in or takes care of a garden as an occupation or pastime
- any bowerbird of the genus Amblyornis
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Word Origin and History for gardener
n.
c.1300 (early 12c. as a surname), from Old North French *gardinier (12c., Modern French jardinier), from gardin (see garden). Cf. German Gärtner. An Old English word for it was wyrtweard, literally "plant-guard."
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