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GRAZIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grazier mean?
• GRAZIER (noun)
The noun GRAZIER has 1 sense:
1. a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market
Familiarity information: GRAZIER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("grazier" is a kind of...):
rancher (a person who owns or operates a ranch)
Derivation:
graze (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)
Context examples
Her father was a grazier, her grandfather had been a butcher, but that was all nothing.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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