English
Noun
gardening (usually uncountable , plural gardenings
The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture .
His hobby was gardening .
1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell , Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. [ … ] (please specify |volume=I or II) , London: Smith, Elder and Co. , [ … ] 1866 , →OCLC Warm ambient air, loiterings abroad, gardenings , flowers to take about, and preserves to make, soothed the wicked imp to slumber in the parish of Hollingford in summer-time.
( cricket ) batsman prodding at the pitch with his bat , typically in order to flatten any bumps
Derived terms
Translations
the care of a garden
Arabic: بَسْتَنَة f ( bastana )
Catalan: jardineria f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 园艺 (zh) ( yuányì ) , 園藝 ／ 园艺 (zh) ( yuányì )
Danish: havearbejde (da)
Dutch: tuinieren (nl) , tuinbouw (nl)
Finnish: puutarhanhoito (fi)
French: jardinage (fr) m
Galician: xardinaxe (gl) f
Georgian: მებაღეობა ( mebaɣeoba )
German: Gartenarbeit (de) f Gärtnerei (de) f
Greek: κηπουρική (el) f ( kipourikí )
Gujarati: બાગકામ ( bāgkām )
Hebrew: גינון (he) m ( ginún )
Icelandic: garðyrkja f
Irish: garraíodóireacht
Italian: giardinaggio (it) m
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Japanese: 庭 いじり ( にわいじり, niwa-ijiri ) , ガーデニング (ja) ( gādeningu ) , 庭 仕事 ( にわしごと, niwa-shigoto ) ; 土 いじり ( つちいじり, tsuchi-ijiri ) ( ja, for leisure ) :
Macedonian: градина́рство n ( gradinárstvo )
Maori: mahi māra
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hagebruk n hagearbeid
Nynorsk: hagebruk n
Polish: ogrodnictwo (pl) n badylarstwo n ( colloquial, derogatory )
Portuguese: jardinagem (pt) f
Romanian: grădinărit (ro)
Russian: садово́дство (ru) n ( sadovódstvo )
Spanish: jardinería (es)
Swedish: trädgårdsodling c hortikultur (sv) c
Telugu: తోటపని (te) ( tōṭapani )
Welsh: garddio (cy)
Yiddish: גערטנערײַ n ( gertneray )
Verb
gardening
present participle of garden He had been gardening all day.
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