gentleman farmer

Definition of gentleman farmernext

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gentleman farmer His father, Golding Constable, a gentleman farmer who had built a lucrative business milling and transporting grain, expected his son John to succeed him. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2026 Part of his mission as an exemplary gentleman farmer was to convince his peers to attend to their estates and, in so doing, bring them back into the fold of solid Roman traditions. — Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026 California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023 And if tuning out entirely isn’t your speed, such activities as foraging, beekeeping, flower collecting, and focaccia baking are all available to bolster the gentleman farmer vibe. — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 June 2023 Saint Isidore is depicted as a 19th-century hidalgo, or gentleman farmer, with a giant staff loosening a gush of water from the earth for the peasants at his feet. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023 Dior himself was a gentleman farmer, and his ornamental garden has been preserved. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gentleman farmer
Noun
  • Marc Savoy was on his grandfather’s farm in Eunice, Louisiana, on the Prairie Faquetaïque, and something enchanting was rising from the catalpa grove, where a tenant farmer named Hiram Courville lived.
    — jeanne malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
  • Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • Sena, a subsistence farmer, asked me, on my first morning in town.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Cotton Australia ended up speaking with 320 growers, or roughly a quarter of its membership.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Its growers and producers are major suppliers of the nation’s food and wine and are regularly caught in the crossfire of policy decisions made at the federal level.
    — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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“Gentleman farmer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gentleman%20farmer. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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