farmer
Meanings
Plural: farmers
Noun
- a person who operates a farm
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- Someone or something that farms, as:
- A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- Someone or something that farms, as:
- More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
- One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
- The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
- A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
- A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.
Synonyms
Fannie Farmer, Fannie Merritt Farmer, farmer, granger, husbandman, James Leonard Farmer, neif, serf, sodbuster, villein
Scrabble Score: 11
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