gardening

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, garden +‎ -ing.

Noun

gardening (usually uncountable, plural gardenings)

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

   Hyponyms: cardening, forest gardening, guerrilla gardening, landscape gardening, market gardening

   His hobby was gardening.

   • 1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 1:

     Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale.

   • 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter XLVI, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 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.

2. (by extension) Any process of care, maintenance, or curation, especially digitally.

   wiki gardening

   digital gardening

   • 2008, Mark S. Choate, Professional Wikis, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 171:

     Several special pages help with the wiki gardening task:¶ ❑ Uncategorized pages (Special:Uncategorizedpages): These are pages that do not have one or more categories assigned. Use this page to ensure that all pages are categorized.

   • 2020 September 3, Tanya Basu, “Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet”, in MIT Technology Review‎^[1]:

     Tom Critchlow, a consultant who has been cultivating his digital garden for years, spells out the main difference between old-school blogging and digital gardening.

3. (cricket) The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with his bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps.
4. (RAF, slang, historical) The sowing of mines in water from low altitude.

Derived terms

• atomic gardening
• cardening
• forest gardening
• gardening leave
• guerrilla gardening
• landscape gardening
• market gardening

 

Translations

the care of a garden

• Albanian: kopshtari (sq) f
• Arabic: بَسْتَنَة f (bastana)
• Armenian: այգեգործություն (hy) (aygegorcutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: bağçılıq
• Belarusian: садо́ўніцтва n (sadóŭnictva), садаво́дства n (sadavódstva)
• Bulgarian: градина́рство n (gradinárstvo)
• Catalan: jardineria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 园艺 (zh) (yuányì), 園藝／园艺 (zh) (yuányì)

• Czech: zahradnictví (cs) n
• Danish: havearbejde (da) n, havebrug n
• Dutch: tuinieren (nl) n, tuinbouw (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĝardenado
• Estonian: aiandus
• Finnish: puutarhanhoito (fi)
• French: jardinage (fr) m, horticulture (fr) f
• Galician: xardinaxe (gl) f
• Georgian: მებაღეობა (mebaɣeoba)
• German: Gartenarbeit (de) f, Gärtnerei (de) f, Gartenbau (de) m
• Greek: κηπουρική (el) f (kipourikí)
• Gujarati: બાગકામ (bāgkām)
• Hebrew: גינון / גִּנּוּן (he) m (ginún)
• Hindi: बाग़बानी f (bāġbānī)
• Hungarian: kertészkedés (hu), kertészet (hu)
• Icelandic: garðyrkja f
• Irish: garraíodóireacht
• Italian: giardinaggio (it) m
• 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) (for leisure):, 園芸 (ja) (えんげい, engei)
• Kazakh: бағбаншылық (bağbanşylyq), баушылық (bauşylyq)
• Korean: 원예(園藝) (ko) (wonye)
• Kyrgyz: багбанчылык (ky) (bagbancılık)
• Latvian: dārzkopība f
• Lithuanian: sodininkystė f
• Macedonian: градинарство n (gradinarstvo)
• Maori: mahi māra
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hagebruk n, hagearbeid n

  Nynorsk: hagebruk n

• Persian: باغبانی (fa) (bâğbâni)
• Polish: ogrodnictwo (pl) n, badylarstwo n (colloquial, derogatory)
• Portuguese: jardinagem (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬਾਗਬਾਨੀ f (bāgbānī)
• Romanian: grădinărit (ro) n, horticultură (ro) f
• Russian: садово́дство (ru) n (sadovódstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цвећа́рство n, цвјећа́рство n, вртла́рство n, хортикулту́ра f

  Roman: cvećárstvo n, cvjećárstvo n, vrtlárstvo (sh) n, hortikultúra (sh) f

• Slovak: záhradníctvo (sk) n
• Slovene: vrtnarjenje n, vrtnarstvo n, hortikultura f
• Spanish: jardinería (es)
• Swedish: trädgårdsodling c, hortikultur (sv) c
• Tajik: боғдори (boġdor-i), боғпарварӣ (boġparvari), боғшинонӣ (boġšinoni), боғбонӣ (boġboni), рустанипарварӣ (rustaniparvari)
• Tatar: бакчачылык (tt) (baqçaçılıq)
• Telugu: తోటపని (te) (tōṭapani)
• Thai: การจัดสวน
• Turkmen: bagbançylyk (tk)
• Ukrainian: садівни́цтво n (sadivnýctvo)
• Urdu: بَاغْبَانِی f (bāġbānī)
• Uyghur: باغۋەنچىلىك (baghwenchilik)
• Uzbek: bogʻdorchilik (uz)
• Welsh: garddio (cy)
• Yiddish: גערטנערײַ n (gertneray)

Verb

gardening

1. present participle and gerund of garden

   He had been gardening all day.

Anagrams

• dangering, deranging, gandering, grenading