• Gardening

    Full definition of gardening

    Adjective

    gardening

    1. describes items or actions connected with the garden.He had just entered the house and was wearing his gardening clothes.

    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 DaughtersWarm 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.

    Verb

    gardening
    1. Present participle of gardenHe had been gardening all day.
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