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# gardener

«gardener» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who looks after a garden and its plants, as a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (gardener, gardeners)

### meaning for a pupil

A gardener is a person who looks after a garden and its plants, as a job or for fun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a worker who plants rows of flowers or trees; work shared among gardeners; in science: gardeners know plants need water, light and soil, and they compost waste; in stories: the gardener in a big house or a secret garden; in everyday life: gardening tools, digging, weeding, mowing

### examples

- The gardener plants 6 rows of 9 roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#x1)
- 3 gardeners mow the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#x2)
- The gardener picks 40 apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#x3)
- Each gardener earns $50 a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#x4)
- The gardener pulled up the weeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#x5)
- Grandpa is a keen gardener and grows his own tomatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#x6)
- The gardener waters the plants every evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#x7)
- In the story, an old gardener kept the key to the secret garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#x8)
- "What do you mean?" asked the gardener. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/#x9)

### note

A person; the numbers are plants or work. Rows × in each row gives all plants. Work problems: more gardeners finish faster. -er makes a person: garden → gardener.

### In the corpora

- [Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting through the forest floor for exactly the same reason.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/1/)
- [Just inside the garden, three gardeners shaped like playing cards are painting white roses red.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/0/)
- [The Queen sees the half-painted roses and orders the gardeners' heads off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/7/)
- [The garden has a large rose-tree with white roses, and three gardeners are «busily painting them red».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/12/)
- [The gardeners are called Two, Five and Seven, like the numbers on playing cards.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gardener» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gardener/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.