Word a Day
farmer
What does farmer mean?
farmer (noun): a person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use farmer in a sentence?
- The farmer sowed barley. (Tatoeba sentence #9476362 by sundown, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce farmer?
/ˈfɑɹmɚ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does farmer come from?
From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “farmer” mean?
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