Farmer
name, noun, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 Someone or something that farms, as:; A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm. agent
"A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone."
- 2 a person who operates a farm wordnet
- 3 Someone or something that farms, as:; More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof. British, agent, especially
- 4 One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent. historical
"a farmer of the revenues"
- 5 The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. historical
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- 6 A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship. Singapore, slang
- 7 A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage). dated
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
"It all started when Nick Farmer bought George R. R. Martin a drink, but the plot really thickened when the linguist met Martin’s then-assistant Ty Franck."
- 2 the Soviet MiG 19 aircraft. countable, uncountable
- 3 A placename in the United States:; A township in Rice County, Kansas. countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
- 5 A placename in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Randolph County, North Carolina. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A placename in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Defiance County, Ohio. countable, uncountable
- 7 A placename in the United States:; A small town in Hanson County, South Dakota. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"The farmer that lived nearby came to investigate."
Etymology
From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.