farmer
- noun
- /ˈfɑːrmər/
- Farmers play a crucial role in providing food for communities around the world.
- farmers grow
- farmers harvest
- farmers sell
How cool is this drinking the farmer's coffee on his farm?
- How cool is this drinking the farmer's coffee on his farm?
- And those companies have a stranglehold on farmers and consumers.
- During the Second World War, farmers were constantly looking for food.
- And my uncles were all, you know, farmers and storytellers.
- There's a Chinese duck farmer with hundreds of ducks.
- Trump has been taking heat because farmers have been hurt by his tariffs.
- We hired A forger to go to see the farmers and make a connection.
- And understandably, the real organic farmers didn't like that.
- She, her family, they're, they're farmers, they farm peonies.
Examples
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Josiah Stowell is a big, rich farmer from South Bainbridge, down Pennsylvania way.
Fiction book (1990) -
Fair trade coffee guarantees a farmer a fixed price for their crop.
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Once there was a farmer who worked extremely hard.
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How cool is this drinking the farmer's coffee on his farm?
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He'll be at the farmers market in an hour.
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I always wanted to be a farmer.
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During the Second World War, farmers were constantly looking for food.
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In St. Lucia, he worked with small farmers in a remote area.
Academic text (2011) -
To safeguard against frost, the farmers applied manure, mostly to insulate their plants.
Academic text (2011) -
The farmer harvested corn and sold it at the local market.
Synonyms
A person who owns or looks after a ranch that has cattle and sheep
A person who raises plants or crops to sell
A person who owns or works on a small farm to grow food
A person who keeps cows on a farm to make milk
A person who works on a farm, often a member of the National Grange
A person who moves to empty land and works it so the government lets them own it
A person who raises and looks after cattle on a farm or ranch
A farmer who rents land from a landowner instead of owning it
A person who studies or works in farming to grow crops
A person who grows fruit trees for a living
A person who prepares and looks after land to grow crops or plants
A person who works a very small farm often in Scotland or northern England
A small farmer who grows and gathers food plants
A person who grows and cares for trees to sell or protect nature
A person who looks after cattle or sheep on grassland for sale
A farmer who breaks prairie land to grow crops
A man who grows crops and looks after animals on a farm
A person who grows plants or crops on land
A person who grows or sells grain like wheat
A farmer who raises animals like cattle or sheep for food and milk
A farmer who works land owned by someone else and gives the owner part of the crop
A person in Italy who works on a small family farm
Compounds
- Archaic
A farmer who works land owned by someone else and gives the owner part of the crop
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Etymology
The word farmer comes from farm, which long ago meant a 'fixed payment' or 'rent' for land. At first a farmer was someone who paid or collected that rent, and over time the word came to mean the person who owns or manages land and grows crops or keeps animals.