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Farmer

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Far·mer  (färmr), Fannie Merritt 1857-1915.
American cookery expert who edited the Boston Cooking School Cook Book (1896), which has undergone many revisions as the Fannie Farmer Cookbook.

Farmer, James Leonard 1920-1999.
American civil rights leader who founded the Congress of Racial Equality (1942), served as its national director (1961-1966), and advocated nonviolent forms of protest.

farm·er  (färmr)
n.
1. One who works on or operates a farm.
2. One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.
3. A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.

farmer [ˈfɑːmə]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a person who operates or manages a farm
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who obtains the right to collect and retain a tax, rent, etc., or operate a franchise for a specified period on payment of a fee
3. (Business / Commerce) a person who looks after a child for a fixed sum

Farmer [ˈfɑːmə]
n
(Biographies / Farmer, John (?1565-1605) M, English, MUSIC: composer, MUSIC: organist) John. ?1565-1605, English madrigal composer and organist
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Farmerfarmer - a person who operates a farm        
contadino - an Italian farmer
creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser - someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
apiarist, apiculturist, beekeeper - a farmer who keeps bees for their honey
dairy farmer, dairyman - the owner or manager of a dairy
arboriculturist, tree farmer, forester - someone trained in forestry
plantation owner, planter - the owner or manager of a plantation
rancher - a person who owns or operates a ranch
smallholder - a person owning or renting a smallholding
small farmer - a farmer on a small farm
sower - someone who sows
stock farmer, stock raiser, stockman - farmer who breed or raises livestock
tenant farmer - a farmer who works land owned by someone else
tiller - someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
2.Farmer - United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
3.Farmer - an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)

farmer
noun agriculturist, yeoman, smallholder, crofter (Scot.), grazier, agriculturalist, rancher, agronomist, husbandman, cockie or cocky (Austral. & N.Z. informal) He was a simple farmer scratching a living from the soil.
Translations
farmer [ˈfɑːməʳ] Nagricultor(a) m/f, granjero/a m/f, chacarero/a m/f (LAm); [of large farm] → hacendado/a m/f, estanciero/a m/f (LAm), ranchero/a m/f (Mex)

farmer [ˈfɑːrr] nfermier/ière m/f, agriculteur/trice m/f
He's a farmer → Il est agriculteur.
farmers' market farmers market nmarché m fermier

farmer
nBauer m, → Bäuerin f, → Landwirt(in) m(f); (in US, Australia) → Farmer(in) m(f); (= mink farmer)Züchter(in) m(f); (= fish farmer)Teichwirt(in) m(f) (form); (= gentleman farmer)Gutsherr m; (= tenant farmer)Pächter(in) m(f); farmer’s wifeBäuerin f; farmer’s co-operativelandwirtschaftliche Genossenschaft

farmer [ˈfɑːməʳ] nagricoltore m, contadino/a, coltivatore/trice; (owner of farm) → proprietario/a terriero/a
farmer [ˈfɑːməʳ] nagricoltore m, contadino/a, coltivatore/trice; (owner of farm) → proprietario/a terriero/a

Farmer مزارع farmář landmand Bauer αγρότης agricultor maanviljelijä fermier farmer contadino 農場主 농부 boer gårdbruker rolnik agricultor, fazendeiro фермер jordbrukare ชาวนา çiftçi trang chủ 农夫


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A Farmer one day came to the stables to see to his beasts of burden: among them was his favourite Ass, that was always well fed and often carried his master.
Environed by them, while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded, those two of the large jaws, and those other two of the plain and the fair faces, trod with stir enough, and carried their divine rights with a high hand.
Nor were they without cause, for a lusty farmer was flogging him with a belt and following up every blow with scoldings and commands, repeating, "Your mouth shut and your eyes open
 
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