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farm·er
(fär′mər)n.
1. One who works on or operates a farm.
2. One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.
3. A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.
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farmer
(ˈfɑːmə)n
1. (Agriculture) a person who operates or manages a farm
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who obtains the right to collect and retain a tax, rent, etc, or operate a franchise for a specified period on payment of a fee
3. (Commerce) a person who looks after a child for a fixed sum
Farmer
(ˈfɑːmə)n
(Biography) John. ?1565–1605, English madrigal composer and organist
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farm•er
(ˈfɑr mər)n.
1. a person who operates a farm or cultivates land.
2. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel.
3. a person who undertakes some service at a fixed price.
4. a person who undertakes the collection of taxes, duties, etc., paying a fixed sum for the privilege of keeping what is collected.
[1350–1400; Middle English fermer < Anglo-French; Old French fermier collector of revenue. See farm, -er2]
Far•mer
(ˈfɑr mər)n.
1. Fannie (Merritt), 1857–1915, U.S. authority on cooking.
2. James (Leonard), 1920–99, U.S. civil-rights leader.
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| Noun | 1. |  farmer - a person who operates a farm contadino - an Italian farmer creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser - someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil dairy farmer, dairyman - the owner or manager of a dairy 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 tenant farmer - a farmer who works land owned by someone else tiller - someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) |
| 2. | Farmer - United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) | |
| 3. | Farmer - an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915) |
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farmer
noun agriculturist, yeoman, smallholder, crofter (Scot.), grazier, agriculturalist, rancher, agronomist, husbandman, cockie or cocky (Austral. & N.Z. informal) He was a simple farmer scratching a living from the soil.
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farmer
[ˈfɑːməʳ] N → agricultor(a) m/f, granjero/a m/f, chacarero/a m/f (LAm); [of large farm] → hacendado/a m/f, estanciero/a m/f (LAm), ranchero/a m/f (Mex)Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
farm
(faːm) noun1. an area of land, including buildings, used for growing crops, breeding and keeping cows, sheep, pigs etc. Much of England is good agricultural land and there are many farms.granja
2. the farmer's house and the buildings near it in such a place. We visited the farm; (also adjective) a farm kitchen.granja
verb to cultivate (the land) in order to grow crops, breed and keep animals etc. He farms (5,000 acres) in the south.cultivar
ˈfarmer noun the owner or tenant of a farm who works on the land etc. How many farmworkers does that farmer employ?granjero, agricultor
ˈfarming noun the business of owning or running a farm. There is a lot of money involved in farming; (also adjective) farming communities.agricultura; ganadería
ˈfarmhouse noun the house in which a farmer lives. granja
ˈfarmyard noun the open area surrounded by the farm buildings. There were several hens loose in the farmyard; (also adjective) farmyard animals.corral
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farmer
→ agricultor , granjeroMultilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
farmer
n. campesino-a, granjero-a.
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farmer
n agricultor -ra mf, granjero -ra mfEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.