Definitions for farmer
ˈfɑr mərfarmer

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbusternoun

   a person who operates a farm

2. Farmer, James Leonard Farmernoun

   United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

3. Farmer, Fannie Farmer, Fannie Merritt Farmernoun

   an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. farmernoun

   A person who works the land or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.

2. farmernoun

   Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.

3. Farmernoun

   the Soviet MiG 19 aircraft.

4. Etymology: From *, fermour, partly from fermier, from firmarius, from firma, see farm; and partly from feormere, from feormian, equivalent to. More at farm.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Farmernoun

   Etymology: fermier, French; or from farm.

   1. One who cultivates hired ground.

   Thou hast seen a farmer ’s dog bark at a beggar, and the creature run from the cur: there thou might’st behold the great image of authority; a dog’s obey’d in office. William Shakespeare.

   2. One who cultivates ground, whether his own or another’s.

   Nothing is of greater prejudice to the farmer than the stocking of his land with cattle that are larger than it will bear. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Farmernoun

   one who farms

2. Farmernoun

   one who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant

3. Farmernoun

   one who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman

4. Farmernoun

   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

5. Farmernoun

   the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown

6. Etymology: [Cf. F. fermier.]

Freebase(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Farmer

   A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a labourer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually a farm owner, while employees of the farm are farm workers, farmhands, etc.

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. farmer

   1. A man who raises early feed for potato-bugs. 2. One who supplies raw stock for vaudeville jokes. 3. A man who makes his money in the country and blows it in when he comes to town. (Farms were first devised as an excuse for the Agricultural Department at Washington.)

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. farmer

   A person with the accurate and specific ability, experience, knowledge, training, education and skills to run a farm.

   The local farmers worked together through a co-op to achieve their fair prices.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 26, 2020  

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1. farmer

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1. • Civil Rights Leader
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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'farmer' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4312

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'farmer' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3849

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'farmer' in Nouns Frequency: #653

Anagrams for farmer »

1. framer

How to pronounce farmer?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of farmer in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of farmer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of farmer in a Sentence

1. Richard Lightbound:

   A lot of the technology is already available. It's just a question of packaging it together at the right cost for the farmers, if you can reduce herbicides by the factor of 10 it becomes very compelling for the farmer in terms of productivity. It's also eco friendly and that's clearly going to be very popular, if not compulsory, at some stage.

2. Robert Moorhead:

   What the UAVs allow us to do is to allow the farmer to go out there and apply herbicide only where he really needs to apply it, so, it saves money and it reduces the load on the environment.

3. Tony Pandola:

   On this really beautiful, quiet farm there were six giant tour buses with their diesel engines running and a couple of minivans and taxis all waiting to have the same experience with the tobacco farmer.

4. Donald Trump:

   We're here to celebrate a really tremendous victory for the American farmer, ranchers, agriculture, incredible people.

5. Neil Leinwand:

   I really struggle with putting any of my dollars into Hormel's pockets, we just reinforce that every time a consumer is buying an Applegate product, they are supporting a farmer, they are supporting a network.

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