farmer

About 13.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Someone or something that farms, as: A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
2. noun A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
3. noun More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
4. noun One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

   a farmer of the revenues

5. noun The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
6. noun A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
7. noun A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).

Similar words

husbandman sodbuster granger plantation farm harvester farming farmland agriculture grower

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Word family

Fannie Merritt Farmer Farmer James Leonard Farmer farmers