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farm⋅er

  [fahr-mer]
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–noun
1. a person who farms; person who operates a farm or cultivates land.
2. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel.
3. a person who undertakes some service, as the care of children or the poor, at a fixed price.
4. a person who undertakes the collection of taxes, duties, etc., paying a fixed sum for the privilege of retaining them.
5. Cards.
a. a variety of twenty-one played with a 45-card pack, the object being to obtain cards having a total worth of 16.
b. the dealer in this game.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME fermer < AF; OF fermier collector of revenue. See farm, -er 2

Related forms:
farm⋅er⋅like, adjective

Far⋅mer

  [fahr-mer]
–noun
1. Fannie (Mer⋅ritt)  [mer-it] , 1857–1915, U.S. authority on cooking.
2. James (Leonard), 1920–1999, U.S. civil-rights leader; founder of CORE.
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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.
Far·mer   (fär'mər)   
American cookery expert who edited the Boston Cooking School Cook Book (1896), which has undergone many revisions as the Fannie Farmer Cookbook.
Farmer, James Leonard 1920-1999.  
American civil rights leader who founded the Congress of Racial Equality (1942), served as its national director (1961-1966), and advocated nonviolent forms of protest.
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Farmer

Farm"er\, n. [Cf. F. fermier.] One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. --Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Farmer-general [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down.

Farmers' satin, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. --McElrath.

The king's farmer (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. --Burrill.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : farmer
Spanish: granjero, agricultor,
German: der Landwirt,
Japanese: 農民
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