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GRANGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does granger mean?
• GRANGER (noun)
The noun GRANGER has 1 sense:
1. a person who operates a farm
Familiarity information: GRANGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who operates a farm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster
Hypernyms ("granger" is a kind of...):
creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "granger"):
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))
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