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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
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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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