English > farmer: 3 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who operates a farm. |
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| Synonyms | husbandman, granger, sodbuster |
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| Narrower | agriculturist, agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser | someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil |
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| beekeeper, apiarist, apiculturist | A farmer who keeps bees for their honey |
| contadino | An Italian farmer |
| dairyman, dairy farmer | The owner or manager of a dairy |
| forester, tree farmer, arboriculturist | someone trained in forestry |
| planter, plantation owner | The owner or manager of a plantation |
| rancher | A person who owns or operates a ranch |
| small farmer | A farmer on a small farm |
| smallholder | A person owning or renting a smallholding |
| sower | someone who sows |
| stockman, stock raiser, stock farmer | 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) |
| Broader | creator | A person who grows or makes or invents / invents things |
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| Spanish | agricultor, campesina, campesino, granjera, granjero, labrador, ranchero, sodbuster |
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| Catalan | agricultor, granger, pagès, sodbuster |
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| Nouns | farmerette | a woman working on a farm |
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| Verbs | farm | cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques |
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| farm | be a farmer |
