# gardener

Pronunciation: US say "GARD-nur" /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/; UK say "GAHD-nuh" /ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə/

## Noun

1. A person who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
   - Simple: A person who grows plants and takes care of a garden.
   - _The gardener spent the weekend pruning the apple trees and clearing fallen leaves._
   - _Experienced gardeners rotate their crops each season to keep the soil healthy._

## Noun

2. A coachman who handles his team and carriage clumsily; an incompetent driver. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A rude old word for a carriage driver who handles the horses badly.
   - _The passengers grumbled that they'd been saddled with a gardener who could barely keep the coach on the road._
   - _Any gardener who let his horses bolt like that would lose his post by week's end._

## Origin

From Middle English gardener, either calqued or borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French gardinier. It is related to garden, and is comparable to German Gärtner. It displaced the native Old English word wyrtweard.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/gardener (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).