farmer

From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm +‎ -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑː.mə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: farm‧er

farmer (plural farmers)

1. (agent noun) Someone or something that farms, as:
   1. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.

      Hyponym: (dated) peasant

      • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

        A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

   2. (strictly, especially British) More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.

      Coordinate terms: farmworker, farmhand

2. (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

   a farmer of the revenues

3. (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
4. (Singapore, slang) A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
5. (dated) A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).

Farmer is probably the last occupational descriptor to have been used as a prefix to a surname in everyday usage: e.g. Farmer Brown. This usage was common until the mid 20th century.

• → Yiddish: פֿאַרמער (farmer)

• framer

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒrmɛr]
• Hyphenation: far‧mer
• Rhymes: -ɛr

From the German Farmer, from the French fermier (“farmer”), from the Old French ferme (“farm, rental”), from the Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tribute, food, feast”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provisions, supplies, feast”). More at farm.

farmer (plural farmerek)

1. farmer

   Synonyms: (host/landowner) gazda, (agriculturalist) mezőgazdász, (smallholder) gazdálkodó, (tiller/earthworker) földműves, (land cultivator) földművelő, (grower) termelő, (peasant) paraszt, (animal-raiser) állattenyésztő, (plant-grower) növénytermesztő

Ellipsis of farmeröltözet (“denim clothes”) or farmernadrág (“denim jeans”).

farmer (not comparable)

1. (made of) denim

farmer (plural farmerek)

1. (a pair of) blue jeans

• (landowner, farmer): farmer in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (landowner; jeans; denim): farmer in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Borrowed from English farmer, from Middle English fermor, fermer, fermour, partly from Old French fermier, from Medieval Latin firmārius, from Latin firma; and partly from Old English feormere, from feormian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfar.mɛr/

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• Rhymes: -armɛr
• Syllabification: far‧mer

farmer m pers (female equivalent farmerka)

1. (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)

   Synonym: rolnik

• farmer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• farmer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /fârmer/
• Hyphenation: far‧mer

fȁrmer m (Cyrillic spelling фа̏рмер)

1. farmer