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farm·er
/
ˈfɑr
mər
/
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[
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;
Middle English
fermer
<
Anglo-French;
Old French
fermier
collector of revenue.
See
farm
,
-er
2
Related forms
farm·er·like,
adjective
pro·farm·er,
adjective
un·der·farm·er,
noun
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Word Origin & History
farmer
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. fermer, Fr. fermier, from M.L. firmarius, from firma (see
farm
). In the agricultural sense, 1590s, replacing native
churl
and husbandman.
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