Definitions for farmer
ˈfɑr mərfarmer

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

1. farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbuster(noun)

   a person who operates a farm

2. Farmer, James Leonard Farmer(noun)

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

3. Farmer, Fannie Farmer, Fannie Merritt Farmer(noun)

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. farmer(Noun)

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

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

2. farmer(Noun)

   Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.

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

3. Farmer(Noun)

   the Soviet MiG 19 aircraft.

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

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

1. Farmer(noun)

   one who farms

   Etymology: [Cf. F. fermier.]

2. Farmer(noun)

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

   Etymology: [Cf. F. fermier.]

3. Farmer(noun)

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

   Etymology: [Cf. F. fermier.]

4. Farmer(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [Cf. F. fermier.]

5. Farmer(noun)

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

   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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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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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Jonathan Blyth:

   The weather is always the biggest challenge, we’re reading the Farmer’s Almanac and always checking forecasts.

2. Randall Jacobsen:

   I started making the things that I designed while I was in the service, it stems from my faith in general. The first Sow is s-o-w, like a farmer sows seed, you sow the seed of the word of God.

3. Tony Redsell:

   The growth of craft brewing in the United States has boosted demand for English varieties, it's a good time to be hop farmer.

4. Rafael Marquez:

   The lack of internet obviously puts Brazilian farmers in a complicated position, it can hurt their competitiveness going forward, the farmer wants to use apps in the field, he wants to send a video to his agronomist when he sees a potential problem ... they want to be online.

5. Jim Hightower:

   The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

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