farmer
Meanings
noun
- Someone or something that farms, as:
- A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
- More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
- One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
- The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
- A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
- A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
name
- A surname.
- the Soviet MiG 19 aircraft.
- A placename in the United States:
- A township in Rice County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Randolph County, North Carolina.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Defiance County, Ohio.
- A small town in Hanson County, South Dakota.
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From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.
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