Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who works on or operates a farm.
- n. One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.
- n. A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who undertakes the collection of taxes, customs, excise, or other duties for a certain rate per cent., or pays a fixed sum for the privilege of collecting and retaining them: as, a farmer of the revenues.
- n. In mining, the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
- n. One who cultivates a farm, either as owner or lessee; in general, one who tills the soil.
- n. The eldest son of the holder or occupier of a farm; anciently, a yeoman or country gentleman.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who works the land or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
- n. Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.
- n. One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.
- n. One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege.
- n. (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
WordNet 3.0
- 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)
- n. a person who operates a farm
Etymologies
- From Middle English *fermer, fermour ("a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes"), partly from Old French fermier ("a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff"), from Medieval Latin firmarius ("one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy"), from firma, see farm; and partly from Old English feormere ("a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer"), from feormian ("to purvey, supply, feed"), equivalent to farm + -er. More at farm. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The - er of farmer does not quite say one who (farms) it merely indicates that the sort of person we call a farmer is closely enough associated with activity on a farm to be conventionally thought of as always so occupied.”
“«the» or «a»_; thus _«agricola»_ may mean _the farmer, a farmer_, or simply _farmer_.”
“When your farmer is a couple of thousand miles away, that 3rd party certification has a place.”
“People say, "Your farmer is an individualist; he will never co-operate", just as used to be said of the Anglo-Saxons, "They won't co-operate.”
“Note 12: My use of "farmer" is an interpretation of Casson's use of "tillers of the soil," which is his translation of oratoi, a word that has been previously translated as "pirates.”
“IN CHONGMING ISLAND, CHINA The small-scale farmer is a dying breed in China, made up mostly of the elderly left behind in the mass exodus of migrant workers to much higher-paying jobs in industrial cities.”
The Washington Post: Young Chinese farmers sowing seeds for organic revolution
“Farms have always had a symbiotic relationship with cities and the organic food movement can rebuild this relationship as people grow more concerned about where their food comes from and who the farmer is that grows it.”
“As I recall, the joke goes something like: The hardest part about being a farmer is learning to keep a straight face while saying “Tell those people in Washington to keep out of my business” in the same sentence as “where is my subsidy check””
“So apparently an Arizona farmer is so in love with Oprah that he made a maze paying tribute to her in his field.”
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“Mr. Anderson, the farmer, is wrestling with a particularly tenacious species of glyphosate-resistant pest called Palmer amaranth, or pigweed, whose resistant form began seriously infesting farms in western Tennessee only last year.”
Round-Up Resistant Weeds Pose a Threat to Farmers | Impact Lab
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘farmer’.
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EN - pseudo-English words
English words used by foreigners in a different sense than they would be used by native speakers + madeupical "English" words that sound English but are not recognized as such by native speakers of...
abseiling, advertising, agroboy, airco, air-condition, relooker, apart, autogrill, autostop, babykiller, baby-foot, babylift and 263 more...
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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
barn, tractor, cow, hay, horse, pig, corn, plough, irrigation, subsidies, crops, plant and 260 more...
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-er
person who; thing or action; repeatedly; comparative degree
farmer, New Yorker, double-header, flicker, cooler, better, flasher, fighter, worker, singer, dancer, doer and 13 more...
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work
director, president, chief, boss, consultant, adviser, assistant, advisor, specialist, manager, employee, counselor and 65 more...
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identifiers
species, sex, age bracket, occupation, hobby .. etc.
man, woman, human being, student, zombie, artist, octopus, race driver, scientist, algorithmist, mathematician, child and 59 more...
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Man Unmade
As we plod and pillage our way through another century, words our great-grandchildren likely won't have a use for...for better or worse.
bucolic, gasoline, farmer, cold, rainforest, incurable, rusticate, landlubber, martial law, polar bear, polar ice cap, nuclear winter and 1 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Hampsteader's list
Just some words i like . . .
bilkirkegaard, frost, flaxen, snow, quoin, quern, westering, deer, antler, solstice, autumn, autumnal and 114 more...
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Tunie: The Devil and the Feathery Wife
Recorded by Martin Carthy.
Now there was an old farmer lived over the hill
And a poor old fellow they say
He was plagued by a scolding wife
The worst misfortune that day<...demons, dwell, quail, damned, hiss, steam, navel, tea, feathers, barrel, stark naked, droppings and 27 more...
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Dictation words
Dictation Word list
suddenly, plumber, transport, discipline, leaking, stethoscope, railway, fiercely, aeroplane, travelling, electrician, thieves and 49 more...
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Neumann
war, polite, farmer, gear, icy, human, stupid, doom, shadow, kingdom, paella, bird and 7 more...
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Abdalrahman
Tweets
Looking for tweets for farmer.
alexz a modern usage of 'farmer' relates to computer games which have items. People 'farm' , or play the game, to get commodities in game items, which are then used for in game currency and trade.
I heard this used in the Computer gaming realm when World of Warcraft came out, but other games have items with random drops, or items which are gained by grinding away at quests.
Dec 31, 2012