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Word entry · 8 letters

gardener

Best crossword clue

"Flower-bed tender"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/Part of speech nounSorted adeegnrrStarts with GEnds with R2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Person who tends plants and outdoor spaces.

Word origin

From Middle English gardener, either calqued or loaned from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French gardinier.

Used in a sentence

  • "Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena
  • At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
  • Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Flower-bed tender8 letters
02Plant caretaker8 letters

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