GARDENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gardening mean? 

• GARDENING (noun)
  The noun GARDENING has 1 sense:

1. the cultivation of plants

  Familiarity information: GARDENING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARDENING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cultivation of plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gardening; horticulture

Hypernyms ("gardening" is a kind of...):

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Domain member category:

garden (work in the garden)

landscape (do landscape gardening)

landscape (embellish with plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gardening"):

landscape gardening; landscaping (working as a landscape gardener)

market gardening (the growing of vegetables or flowers for market)

floriculture; flower gardening (the cultivation of flowering plants)

Derivation:

garden (work in the garden)

 Context examples 

Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Does gardening make you breathless?

(AQ20 - Gardening Make You Breathless, NCI Thesaurus)

In this park are several small enclosures for cattle, corn, and gardening.

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

He and I were the only occupants of the parlour: Diana was practising her music in the drawing-room, Mary was gardening—it was a very fine May day, clear, sunny, and breezy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The amiable creature with the polished head told me a long story, which I think was about gardening.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Gardening, walks, rows on the river, and flower hunts employed the fine days, and for rainy ones, they had house diversions, some old, some new, all more or less original.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The products you use for cleaning, carpentry, auto repair, gardening, and many other household uses can contain ingredients that can harm you, your family, and the environment.

(Household Products, Environmental Protection Agency)

I had been discomposed enough before; but I was so much the more discomposed by this unexpected behaviour, that I was on the point of slinking off, to think how I had best proceed, when there came out of the house a lady with her handkerchief tied over her cap, and a pair of gardening gloves on her hands, wearing a gardening pocket like a toll-man's apron, and carrying a great knife.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)