farmer

Meaning

1. (agent) Someone or something that farms, as:
2. (British, agent, especially) Someone or something that farms, as:
3. (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
4. (historical) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
5. (Singapore, slang) A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
6. (dated) A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).

Synonyms

peasant

cultivator

agriculturist

tiller

peasantry

husbandman

agriculturalist

agrarian

grower

tenant

granger

gardener

planter

ploughman

sodbuster

ryot

lessee

agronomist

farmhand

plowman

sower

farm owner

farm worker

leaseh lder

Luyana

manurer

master

nurseryman

farmhouse

drudge

pioneer

countryman

contractor

plower

leaser

rancher

renter

Reuben

rustic

seeder

serf

sharecropper

breeder

station wagon

stockbreeder

stock farmer

stockman

clown

cattleman

villager

Translations

cultivateur

Bauer

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agricoltore

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contadino

fermier

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Landwirt

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agriculteur

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labrador

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agricultor

boer

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agricola

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landbouwer

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agricultor

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paysan

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: fermour

Inherited from Old English: feormere

In summary

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.

Sentences

The name is said to derive from the Latin "decumanus", a farmer of tithes .