Farmer

  • 21farmer — In an older meaning, the tenant or lessee of a farm; the eldest son of such tenant or lessee; a yeoman. In the modern sense of the term, a person who earns his living by, or follows the occupation or profession of farming or agriculture, whether… …

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  • 22farmer — farmerlike, adj. /fahr meuhr/, n. 1. a person who farms; person who operates a farm or cultivates land. 2. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel. 3. a person who undertakes some service, as the care of children or the poor, at a… …

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  • 23Farmer — /fahr meuhr/, n. 1. Fannie (Merritt) /mer it/, 1857 1915, U.S. authority on cooking. 2. James (Leonard), born 1920, U.S. civil rights leader. * * * (as used in expressions) Farmer s Almanac Farmer Fannie Merritt Farmer Labor Party * * * …

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  • 24farmer — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. planter, grower, breeder, livestock breeder, stockman, agriculturist, agriculturalist, agronomist, rancher, dirt farmer, tenant farmer, tenant, lessee, homesteader, granger, husbandman, producer, tiller of the soil,… …

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  • 25farmer */*/*/ — UK [ˈfɑː(r)mə(r)] / US [ˈfɑrmər] noun [countable] Word forms farmer : singular farmer plural farmers someone who owns a farm or manages it as their job a dairy/sheep/pig farmer …

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  • 26farmer — n. a dirt (AE); tenant farmer * * * [ fɑːmə] tenant farmer a dirt (AE) …

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  • 27Farmer — Farm »landwirtschaftlicher Großbetrieb (besonders in den USA); Hof für Geflügel oder Pelztierzucht«: Das Substantiv wurde im 19. Jh. aus engl. amerik. farm entlehnt, das ursprünglich ein gegen »festen Preis« verpachtetes Landgut bezeichnet und… …

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  • 28Farmer — This English medieval job descriptive surname, recorded in the spellings of Farmer, Farmar, Fermer and Fermor, is of Olde French pre 10th century origins. Most people are surprised to know that originally the surname had nothing to with actually… …

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  • 29farmer — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, large, large scale ▪ small, small scale ▪ a new plan to help the small farmer ▪ peasant …

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  • 30Farmer — ↑ Farmerin Agronom, Agronomin, Bauer, Bäuerin, Bauersfrau, Farmersfrau, Landfrau, Landwirt, Landwirtin, Rancher, Rancherin; (geh. veraltend): Landmann; (veraltet): Ackersmann, Bauersmann. * * * Farmer,der:Rancher+Pflanzer·Siedler;auch⇨Siedler,⇨1Ba… …

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