FARMER

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• FARMER (noun)
  The noun FARMER has 3 senses:

1. a person who operates a farm

2. United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

3. an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)

  Familiarity information: FARMER used as a noun is uncommon.

• FARMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who operates a farm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster

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

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

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

contadino (an Italian farmer)

agriculturalist; agriculturist; cultivator; grower; raiser (someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil)

apiarist; apiculturist; beekeeper (a farmer who keeps bees for their honey)

dairy farmer; dairyman (the owner or manager of a dairy)

arboriculturist; forester; tree farmer (someone trained in forestry)

plantation owner; planter (the owner or manager of a plantation)

rancher (a person who owns or operates a ranch)

smallholder (a person owning or renting a smallholding)

small farmer (a farmer on a small farm)

sower (someone who sows)

stock farmer; stock raiser; stockman (farmer who breed or raises livestock)

tenant farmer (a farmer who works land owned by someone else)

tiller (someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops))

Derivation:

farm (cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques)

farm (be a farmer; work as a farmer)

farmerette (a woman working on a farm)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Farmer; James Leonard Farmer

Instance hypernyms:

civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fannie Farmer; Fannie Merritt Farmer; Farmer

Instance hypernyms:

cook (someone who cooks food)

 Context examples 

"'Never mind,'" said the farmer.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The company were, the farmer and his wife, three children, and an old grandmother.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The farmer was a sad miser, and knew that his man was very simple-hearted; so he took out threepence, and gave him for every year’s service a penny.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

EXAMPLE(S): Litter1, X12, Farmer Brown's Cows

(Biologic Entity Group Name, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

In the third experiment, they asked farmers to participate in the research.

(New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Federal, state, or local programs that provide supplemental food assistance, e.g., Farmer's Market Coupon Program, Commodity Foods Program, Health Start; Women, Infant, & Children (WIC) Program.

(Food Assistance Programs, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called: Farmer's Lung, Coal Miner's Lung, Pneumoconiosis

(Interstitial Lung Diseases, NIH)

But as to hunting, what amusement can there be in flying about among a crowd of greasy, galloping farmers?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the day, I believe, he worked sometimes for a neighbouring farmer, because he often went forth and did not return until dinner, yet brought no wood with him.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

According to the study, making greater use of ladybirds as a natural form of pest control can increase yields and save farmers time and money.

(Study estimates true value of ladybird as biocontrol, SciDev.Net)