variants
or agriculturalist
as in farmer
a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it
agriculturists who adhere to the organization's standards of organic farming
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Recent Examples of agriculturist
Native to Southeast Asia, camellias first made their way to California during the Gold Rush, when agriculturist James Lloyd Lafayette Franklin Warren brought seeds from Boston.
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Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2026
Coming from the Orinoco Basin in South America, groups of agriculturalists settled in villages in the western and eastern parts of the Caribbean, speaking languages derived from the language family known as Arawakan.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2026
Coming from the Orinoco Basin in South America, groups of agriculturalists settled in villages in the western and eastern parts of the Caribbean, speaking languages derived from the language family known as Arawakan.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agriculturist
farmer
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The Farmers' Almanac was founded in 1818 in New Jersey to provide weather predictions for farmers' crops.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Building a bridge between farmers and wildlife conservation is the goal behind a new project designed to help salmon populations recover in California's Central Valley.—
Brady Halbleib,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Agriculturist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agriculturist. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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