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granger

noun

Definition of grangernext
as in farmer

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  1. farmer
  2. grower
  3. planter
  4. cultivator
  5. agriculturist
  6. farmhand
  7. harvester
  8. plowman
Noun
  • North of the Thai capital Bangkok, rice farmers like 55-year-old Boonmark Marksuuk are already facing tough choices.
    — EDNA TARIGAN, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Keep the diesel at home and prices will fall, sparing farmers, truckers, and inflationary pressures on all Americans.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of farmer
Noun
  • The material begins with straw collected from growers in Anadolu Efes’ agricultural supply network.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Meta sits near the bottom of the group, ahead of only Amazon — which is a much slower grower and a low-margin retailer.
    — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of grower
Noun
  • The planters are original to the stadium’s 1962 construction, and many had crumbled badly enough over the decades to need painstaking repair.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
  • With the fall harvest already started, diesel is powering tractors, planters, and harvesters.
    — Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of planter
Noun
  • In 2019, González was introduced to Rocha, who had a reputation as a cultivator of Black and brown political talent.
    — Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Cut, trim and prune with loppers, shears, snips and more, dig and weed with scoops, trowels, weeders and more and take and cultivate with cultivators and rakes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of cultivator
Noun
  • LaRue was a prominent agriculturalist and state legislator, while his son, Jacob Eugene LaRue, was active in efforts to bring University State Farm, the predecessor to UC Davis, to what was then known as Davisville.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • According to Mason Huddleston, an urban agriculturalist at Oklahoma State University Extension, one of the plant’s most distinguishing features is its smooth, hollow stem, marked with purple or reddish-purple spots.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of agriculturist
Noun
  • On May 30, 1893, the 22-year-old was home alone at her family’s dairy farm in Fall River while her father, younger brother and a farmhand were in town selling milk, per The Herald News.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Monster depicts a Portuguese former farmhand being unjustly arrested for the murder.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of farmhand
Noun
  • Corn and soybean growers reported that a single large combine harvester consumes roughly 200 gallons of diesel per day.
    — , CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Aggressively extracting oil from its iwashi resources, Imperial Japan became the world’s largest harvester of the fish.
    — Pei-Hsu Lin, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of harvester
Noun
  • More traditionally, Boötes is a herdsman or a plowman.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 8 May 2026
  • Give your 19th-century plowman a dozen hard ciders, though, and see whether that plays a more significant role in his evening than his urge to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
    — Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
Definition of plowman
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“Granger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/granger. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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