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farmer

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of farmer

agriculturist (or agriculturalist), agronomist, cultivator, grower, planter, tiller
Words Related to farmer

farmhand, field hand, gleaner, harvester, plowman, reaper

workfolk (or workfolks)

gentleman farmer, sharecropper, subsistence farmer, tenant farmer, yeoman

homesteader, nester [West]

granger

rancher, ranchero, ranchman
Antonyms of farmer

nonfarmer

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