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FARMER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who operates a farm
Synonyms:
farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("farmer" is a kind of...):
creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "farmer"):
contadino (an Italian farmer)
agriculturalist; agriculturist; cultivator; grower; raiser (someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil)
apiarist; apiculturist; beekeeper (a farmer who keeps bees for their honey)
dairy farmer; dairyman (the owner or manager of a dairy)
arboriculturist; forester; tree farmer (someone trained in forestry)
plantation owner; planter (the owner or manager of a plantation)
rancher (a person who owns or operates a ranch)
smallholder (a person owning or renting a smallholding)
small farmer (a farmer on a small farm)
sower (someone who sows)
stock farmer; stock raiser; stockman (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))
Derivation:
farm (cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques)
farm (be a farmer; work as a farmer)
farmerette (a woman working on a farm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
Synonyms:
Fannie Farmer; Fannie Merritt Farmer; Farmer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
cook (someone who cooks food)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
Synonyms:
Farmer; James Leonard Farmer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)
Context examples:
They also stopped sorghum plants from producing sorgoleone, which would benefit farmers who want to rotate different crops with sorghum.
(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Because horses are prohibited from grazing in designated grazing areas, to prevent them from competing for food with cattle, some farmers have been letting horses graze unattended in forests.
(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)
Farmers resort to antibiotics, generally administered through animal feed or low-dose injections, to improve nutrition and hygiene for their livestock.
(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)
New initiatives such as the Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast are designed to help farmers apply fertilizer at optimum times to limit nutrient runoff to the Gulf.
(Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is the largest ever measured, NOAA)
A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A little before dark I passed a farm-house, at the open door of which the farmer was sitting, eating his supper of bread and cheese.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He was an old man, my servant said, and looked like a farmer.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The stable-boy threw a light upon the matter by remembering that a farmer of that name lived some miles off, in the direction of East Ruston.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was seen by some farmer, and he told the miller, and the miller told the butcher, and the butcher's son-in-law left word at the shop.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Farmers just below the aqueduct practice wet rice cultivation, in which fields are flooded at one point in the growing cycle.
(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)
