gardening

English

Noun

gardening (countable and uncountable, plural gardenings)

1. The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

   His hobby was gardening.

   • 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

     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.

2. (cricket) The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with his bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps

Translations

the care of a garden

• 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
• Georgian: მებაღეობა (mebaɣeoba)
• German: Gartenarbeit (de) f, Gärtnerei (de) f
• Greek: κηπουρική (el) f (kipourikí)
• Gujarati: બાગકામ (bāgkām)
• Icelandic: garðyrkja f
• Irish: garraíodóireacht
• Italian: giardinaggio (it) m
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• Macedonian: градина́рство n (gradinárstvo)
• Maori: mahi māra
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hagebruk n, hagearbeid

  Nynorsk: hagebruk n

• Polish: ogrodnictwo (pl) n
• 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

1. present participle of garden

   He had been gardening all day.

Anagrams

• dangering, deranging, gandering, grenading