Definition of Farmer

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Farmer

One who farms

One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.

One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.

One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.

The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

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Farmer Quotations

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will Rogers

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
James Allen

Never answer a question from a farmer.
Hubert H. Humphrey

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. White

As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
David Ricardo

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.
James Herriot

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
Nikolai Gogol

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
Lenny Kravitz

Farmer Translations

farmer in Danish is landmand, bonde
farmer in Dutch is boer
farmer in French is cambrousarde, paysan, fermier
farmer in German is Bauer, Landwirt
farmer in Italian is agricoltore, contadina, contadino
farmer in Portuguese is fazendeiro
farmer in Spanish is campesino, aldeana, agricultor, aldeano, granjero
farmer in Swedish is bonde, lantbrukare, jordbrukare

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