GARDENER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gardener mean? 

• GARDENER (noun)
  The noun GARDENER has 2 senses:

1. someone who takes care of a garden

2. someone employed to work in a garden

  Familiarity information: GARDENER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARDENER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who takes care of a garden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gardener; nurseryman

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)

 Context examples 

‘My father made the fellow gardener,’ said my companion, ‘and then, as that did not satisfy him, he was promoted to be butler.’

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

With them was the engineer, the gardener, and the assistant gardener, and two or three men from the stable.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It could only have been the murderer, since neither the gardener nor anyone else had been there that morning, and the rain had only begun during the night.

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

Then said the gardener’s boy: “I am grown up, and will go to the wars also, only give me a horse.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She severely reprimanded the gardener on account of his dog.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener’s helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Frozen-out old gardeners in the flower-beds of the heart, I took a personal offence against them all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My dear, it is only a beautiful little heath, which that nice old gardener would make me take; but if it is in your way, I will have it in my lap directly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I watched at the gate, same as you advised, Mr. Holmes,” said our emissary, the discharged gardener.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As many gardeners know, aphids can quickly overwhelm and kill the host plants on which they live and feed.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)