farmer
IPA: fˈɑrmɝ
noun
- (agent noun) Someone or something that farms, as:
- A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- (strictly, especially Britain) More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
- (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
- (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
- (Singapore, slang) A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
- (dated) A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
- A surname.
- (NATO code name) the Soviet MiG 19 aircraft.
- A placename in the United States:
- A township in Rice County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Randolph County, North Carolina.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Defiance County, Ohio.
- A small town in Hanson County, South Dakota.
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Examples of "farmer" in Sentences
- The people are farmers.
- She was the widow of a farmer.
- The farmer is harrowing a field.
- In the verses, Farmer is whispering.
- The noxious gas destroyed the crops of nearby farmers.
- The young farmer started to plant crops for this year.
- The farmers were happy about the bountifulness of their crops.
- The farmers would plow up the old crops and stir up the dry dirt.
- On the other side of the agricultural coin were the small yeoman farmers.
- «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.
- She has urged farmers to start growing sweet potatoes, a hardy crop in vogue in urban kitchens.
- So apparently an Arizona farmer is so in love with Oprah that he made a maze paying tribute to her in his field.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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