Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who works on or operates a farm.
- noun One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.
- noun A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun In mining, the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
- noun One who cultivates a farm, either as owner or lessee; in general, one who tills the soil.
- noun The eldest son of the holder or occupier of a farm; anciently, a yeoman or country gentleman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.
- noun One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.
- noun One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege.
- noun (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
- noun 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. - noun a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who works the land or who keeps
livestock , especially on afarm . - noun
Agent noun offarm ; someone or something thatfarms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
- noun United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
- noun a person who operates a farm
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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«the» or «a»_; thus _«agricola»_ may mean _the farmer, a farmer_, or simply _farmer_.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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When your farmer is a couple of thousand miles away, that 3rd party certification has a place.
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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."
The Wheat Situation 1930
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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."
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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.
Organic Farming Opens a Way for Farmers to Return to their Proper Role as Innovators and Stewards of the Land Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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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”
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So apparently an Arizona farmer is so in love with Oprah that he made a maze paying tribute to her in his field.
5 More Places to Look at in The U.S. on Google Earth | myFiveBest 2010
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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.
Young Chinese farmers sowing seeds for organic revolution William Wan Washington Post Foreign Service 2010
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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.
Archive 2010-03-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010
alexz commented on the word farmer
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.
December 31, 2012