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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024farm•er (fär′mər),USA pronunciation n. - Agriculturea person who farms;
person who operates a farm or cultivates land. - an unsophisticated person from a rural area;
yokel. - a person who undertakes some service, as the care of children or the poor, at a fixed price.
- a person who undertakes the collection of taxes, duties, etc., paying a fixed sum for the privilege of retaining them.
- [Cards.]
- a variety of twenty-one played with a 45-card pack, the object being to obtain cards having a total worth of 16.
- the dealer in this game.
- Anglo-French; Old French fermier collector of revenue. See farm, -er2
- Middle English fermer 1350–1400
farm′er•like′, adj. Far•mer (fär′mər),USA pronunciation n. Fannie (Mer•ritt) (mer′it),USA pronunciation 1857–1915, U.S. authority on cooking.- Biographical James (Leonard), born 1920, U.S. civil-rights leader.
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