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farmer
| farmer's calendar
| farmer's cheese
| farmer's lung
| farmer's market
| farmer-labor party
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun farmer has 3 senses
- farmer(n = noun.person) granger, husbandman, sodbuster - a person who operates a farm; Array has particulars: contadino, agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser, apiarist, apiculturist, beekeeper, dairy farmer, dairyman, arboriculturist, forester, tree farmer, plantation owner, planter, rancher, smallholder, small farmer, sower, stock farmer, stock raiser, stockman, tenant farmer, tiller
- farmer(n = noun.person) james leonard farmer - United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920); Array is a kind of civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker
- farmer(n = noun.person) fannie farmer, fannie merritt farmer - an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915); Array is a kind of cook
is a kind of creator
Derived forms verb farm3, verb farm1, noun farmerette1
CIDE DICTIONARY
farmer, n. [Cf. F. fermier.].
One who farms [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
farmer, n.
1 a person who cultivates a farm.
2 a person to whom the collection of taxes is contracted for a fee.
3 a person who looks after children for payment.
1 a person who cultivates a farm.
2 a person to whom the collection of taxes is contracted for a fee.
3 a person who looks after children for payment.
Etymology
ME f. AF fermer, OF fermier f. med.L firmarius, firmator f. firma FIRM(2)
THESAURUS
farmer
Bauer, Internal Revenue Service, accumulator, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, assessor, bill collector, boor, bucolic, bumpkin, clod, clodhopper, clown, coffee-planter, collection agent, collective farm worker, collector, connoisseur, country bumpkin, crofter, cropper, cultivator, customhouse, customs, dirt farmer, douanier, dry farmer, dunner, exciseman, farm laborer, farmhand, gatherer, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, looby, lout, magpie, miser, muzhik, pack rat, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, publican, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, revenuer, rube, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tax assessor, tax collector, tax farmer, taxer, taxman, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman, yokelROGET THESAURUS
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Agriculture
N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.
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