Entry Word: farmer

Function: noun

Meaning: a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it <a young farmer whose family has been growing wheat for many generations>

Synonyms agriculturist (or agriculturalist), agronomist, cultivator, grower, planter, tiller

Related Words farmhand, gleaner, harvester, reaper; crofter [chiefly British], cropper, sharecropper; homesteader, nester [West]; granger; rancher, ranchero, ranchman