GARDNER

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• GARDNER (noun)
  The noun GARDNER has 2 senses:

1. United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924)

2. writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970)

  Familiarity information: GARDNER used as a noun is rare.

• GARDNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gardner; Isabella Stewart Gardner

Instance hypernyms:

accumulator; collector; gatherer (a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Erle Stanley Gardner; Gardner

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

There is a strong genetic component associating the neoplasm with Gardners syndrome and deep fibromatosis/desmoid tumor.

(Gardner Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

The innovative approach by Alex Gardner of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and his international team of scientists largely confirms earlier findings, though with a few unexpected twists.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)