farmer

farmer

noun

Definition of FARMER

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, field hand, gleaner, harvester, plowman, reaper; workfolk (or workfolks); crofter [chiefly British], cropper, gentleman farmer, sharecropper, subsistence farmer, tenant farmer, yeoman; homesteader, nester [West]; granger; rancher, ranchero, ranchman; campesino

Antonyms nonfarmer