gardener

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə/|/ˈɡɑːd.nə/    美 /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/|/ˈɡɑɹd.nɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
    — "Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena
  2. A coachman who drives badly. derogatory,obsolete,slang
    — Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman.

词形变化

gardeners plural

词汇关系

衍生词
gardener bowerbird gardeneress gardenership gardener snake landscape gardener market gardener nongardener undergardener uphill gardener window gardener

词源

From Middle English gardener, either calqued or loaned from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French gardinier.
See garden, and compare German Gärtner (“gardener”), which is equivalent to a derivative of the German cognate to English garden, Garten (“garden”), + -er.
Displaced native Old English wyrtweard (effectively "wortward").
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