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- DictionaryFarm·er/ˈfärmər/
noun
- 1. a person who owns or manages a farm.
- 2. a person to whom the collection of taxes was contracted for a fee. historical
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmland or might work as a laborer on land owned by others.
Farmer definition: a person who farms; person who operates a farm or cultivates land.. See examples of FARMER used in a sentence.
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.
Definition of farmer noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
noun [ C ] uk / ˈfɑːmə r/ us. Add to word list. A2. someone who owns or looks after a farm. Examples. a local farmer. Many farmers have been forced to sell their land. This weather is bad news for farmers. Most farmers think foxes are pests. She's the daughter of a New Zealand sheep farmer.
The word farmer has been used as a derogatory term for an ignorant or unsophisticated person, especially one from a rural area (whether an actual farmer or not), since the 1800's. A couple of citations illustrate this.
