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 →

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 →
• 3 gardeners mow the lawn. tree →
• The gardener picks 40 apples. tree →
• Each gardener earns $50 a day. tree →
• The gardener pulled up the weeds. tree →
• Grandpa is a keen gardener and grows his own tomatoes. tree →
• The gardener waters the plants every evening. tree →
• In the story, an old gardener kept the key to the secret garden. tree →
• "What do you mean?" asked the gardener. tree →

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.
• Just inside the garden, three gardeners shaped like playing cards are painting white roses red.
• The Queen sees the half-painted roses and orders the gardeners' heads off.
• The garden has a large rose-tree with white roses, and three gardeners are «busily painting them red».
• The gardeners are called Two, Five and Seven, like the numbers on playing cards.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gardener» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.