farmer

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /fɑɹmɚ/
• (RP) IPA: /fɑːmə/

Noun

farmer (plural farmers)

1. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
2. Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farm#verb|farms.
3. (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

   a farmer of the revenues

4. (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Translations

• French: agriculteur, fermier (dated), agricultrice, fermière, cultivateur, cultivatrice
• German: Landwirt, Landwirtin; (crops) Bauer, Bäuerin; Farmer, Farmerin; (livestock) Züchter, Züchterin, Landmann, Landfrau
• Italian: agricoltore, fattore, contadino, contadina, agricoltrice, fattoressa
• Portuguese: fazendeiro, agricultor, agropecuarista
• Russian: крестья́нин
• Spanish: granjero, granjera

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Farmer

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Proper noun

1. Surname
2. (NATO code name) the Soviet MiG 19 aircraft.
3. An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
4. A town in South Dakota.

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