farmer
Other forms: farmers
A farmer is a person who runs and works on a farm. Some farmers raise a variety of food crops, while others keep dairy cows and sell their milk.
Farmers work in some aspect of agriculture, growing vegetables, grains, or fruit; or raising animals for milk, eggs, or meat. A small farmer manages a relatively small piece of land, often growing different crops and keeping hens for their eggs, for example. Some farmers own their farms, while others rent the land on which they work. In the 14th century, a farmer was "one who collects taxes," from the Old French fermier, "lease holder."
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a person who operates a farmsynonyms: granger, husbandman, sodbustertypes:contadinoan Italian farmeragriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raisersomeone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soilranchera person who owns or operates a ranchsmallholdera person owning or renting a smallholdingsmall farmera farmer on a small farmsowersomeone who sowstenant farmera farmer who works land owned by someone elsetillersomeone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)crofteran owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britainfruit growersomeone who grows fruit commerciallygraziera rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for marketsheepmana man who raises (or tends) sheepviticulturista cultivator of grape vinetype of:creatora person who grows or makes or invents things
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