AGRICULTURIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agriculturist mean? 

• AGRICULTURIST (noun)
  The noun AGRICULTURIST has 1 sense:

1. someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil

  Familiarity information: AGRICULTURIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGRICULTURIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

agriculturalist; agriculturist; cultivator; grower; raiser

Hypernyms ("agriculturist" is a kind of...):

farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster (a person who operates a farm)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agriculturist"):

fruit grower (someone who grows fruit commercially)

viticulturist (a cultivator of grape vine)

Derivation:

agriculture (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

agriculture (a large-scale farming enterprise)