farmer
noun
Simple meaning
Someone who works the land and/or who keeps livestock.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈfɑɹmɚ
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
A person who operates a farm
agent noun
Someone or something that farms, as
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
strictlyespecially British
More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
singaporeslang
A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A2 · Elementary (estimated)
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: A person who operates a farm
Used this way, farmer is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use farmer
- “The farmer worked hard all summer planting his crops.”
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
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Inflected forms
Grammatical variations of the same word.
Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A former minor political party in the United States in the early 20th century.
The owner or manager of a dairy.
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920).
Small farmers and tenants.
A farmer on a small farm.
Farmer who breed or raises livestock.
Related words
Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.
House for a farmer and family.
A cooperative nationwide system of banks and associations providing credit to farmers and related businesses.
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