farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbuster
(noun) a person who operates a farm
Farmer, Fannie Farmer, Fannie Merritt Farmer
(noun) an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
Farmer, James Leonard Farmer
(noun) United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
farmer (plural farmers)
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.
(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.
Farmer is probably the last occupational descriptor to have been used as a prefix to a surname in everyday usage: e.g. Farmer Brown. This usage was common until the mid 20th century.
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Farmer (plural Farmers)
A surname.
(NATO code name) the Soviet MiG 19 aircraft.
An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
A town in South Dakota.
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Source: Wiktionary
Farm"er, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fermier.]
Definition: One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) 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. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. Farmer-general Etym: [F. fermier-general], 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.
– Farmers' satin, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. McElrath.
– The king's farmer (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 March 2025
(noun) a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
