farmer
noun /ˈfɑːmə(r)/
/ˈfɑːrmər/
- a person who owns or manages a farm
- My parents are dairy farmers.
- The land is owned by a local farmer.
- A lot of conventional farmers have converted to organic.
- a new plan to help smallholder farmers
- Settlers were primarily subsistence farmers.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- large
- large-scale
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French fermier, from medieval Latin firmarius, firmator, from firma ‘fixed payment’, from Latin firmare ‘fix, settle’ (in medieval Latin ‘contract for’), from firmus ‘constant, firm’. The current sense originally denoted ‘a bailiff’ or ‘steward who farmed land on the owner's behalf’, or ‘a tenant farmer’.