About The Word Farmer

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Farmer

Farmer Meaning & Definition
Farmer Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Farmer?

[n] a person who operates a farm
[n] an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
[n] United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Farmer: Fannie Farmer | Fannie Merritt Farmer | granger | husbandman | James Leonard Farmer | sodbuster

Related Terms | Find terms related to Farmer: accumulator | agriculturalist | agriculturist | agrologist | agronomist | assessor | Bauer | 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 | Internal Revenue Service | 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 | yokel

See Also | agriculturist | apiarist | apiculturist | arboriculturist | beekeeper | civil rights leader | civil rights worker | contadino | cook | creator | cultivator | dairy farmer | dairyman | forester | grower | plantation owner | planter | raiser | rancher | small farmer | smallholder | sower | stock farmer | stock raiser | stockman | tenant farmer | tiller | tree farmer

Farmer In Webster's Dictionary

\Farm"er\, n. [Cf. F. fermier.] One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. --Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. {Farmer-general} [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down. {Farmers' satin}, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. --McElrath. {The king's farmer} (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. --Burrill.

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