farmer

farmer (fär′mər)

noun

a person who earns a living by farming; esp., one who manages or operates a farm
a person who pays for a right, as, formerly, to collect and keep taxes
a person who contracts to do something for a fixed price

Etymology: ME fermour, farmer, bailiff < Anglo-Fr fermer < OFr fermier < ferme: see farm

Far·mer (fär′mər)

Farmer, Fannie (Merritt) 1857-1915; U.S. teacher & writer on cooking

planter, grower, breeder, livestock breeder, stockman, agriculturist, agriculturalist, agronomist, rancher, dirt farmer, tenant farmer, tenant, lessee, homesteader, granger, husbandman, producer, tiller of the soil, cultivator, peasant, peon, herdsman, plowman, sharecropper, operator, farmhand, hired hand, hired man, gentleman farmer, squire, cropper, grazer, cattleman, sheepman, harvester, son of the soil, countryman, yeoman, truck gardener, sower, gleaner, gardener, nurseryman, orchardist, horticulturist, hydroponist, pomologist, viticulturist, settler, migrant worker, migrant, help, farm laborer, picker, campesino (Spanish), villein, sodbuster*.

Possessives

livelihood: Family farmers ' livelihoods and independence will be further compromised by genetic engineering.
wife: Into their world wanders a bored young farmer's wife who provokes a tragedy by playing the sex kitten.
co-operative: Among those who welcomed the Duke was Malawian sugar farmer Brian Namata from the farmers ' co-operative which supplies Traidcraft with fairly traded sugar.
market: Once a month a farmer's market is still held here.

Converse of object

compensate: However, to compensate farmers for the loss of subsidy, produce prices have been raised.
neighbor: The hero of this heart-warming tale was a neighboring farmer, checking his own boundaries as a major police search developed.
help: I want to use the rest of my time with you to set out my Party's plans to help farmers.
urge: The Government is urging farmers to look to the horse industry as a form of diversification in their present economic plight.

Adjective modifier

small-scale: Its sole objective is to support small-scale cotton farmers.
organic: Or rather who says how much, organic farmer or court?
poor: Poor farmers also exist on the margins of society.
Welsh: Once he warms to the subject, there is no better relater of anecdotes than the Welsh farmer.
wealthy: Another wealthy farmer, Chandra Bhan, owed $ 3,000.
African: The cotton is then dumped onto world markets driving millions of poor African farmers into total destitution.

Noun used with modifier

dairy: For example, one organic dairy farmer from Chepstow lost four cattle to the skin test in August 2005.
smallholder: A smallholder coffee farmer bends to inspect several bushes which have just caught his attention.
subsistence: Yet, India has far to go in improving the lives and productivity of its subsistence farmers.
peasant: Only an animal or a peasant farmer can live without money.
cocoa: Guillermo is one of four coffee, banana and cocoa farmers who will be visiting the UK during Fairtrade Fortnight.
livestock: You may wish to get involved in the supply of medicines to livestock farmers for use in cattle, sheep, pigs or goats.

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