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
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
