farmernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfɑː.mər/us/ˈfɑːr.mɚ/A2 someone who owns or takes care of a farm:
a dairy/sheep farmer
More examples
- He is a beef cattle farmer.
- The farmer has several large flocks of long-haired sheep.
- The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
- The drought has made farmers anxious about the harvest.
- Most of the produce sold in the market is grown by peasant farmers.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Farmers & farm workers
- croft
- farmhand
- homesteader
- landholding
- market garden
- pastoralist
- peasant
- peon
- picker
- ploughman
- plowman
- rancher
- ryot
- sharecropper
- smallholder
- squatter
- truck farm
- yeoman