Word Meanings - FARMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who farms; as: One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart. One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. One who takes taxes, customs, excise,

Additional info about word: FARMER

One who farms; as: One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart. One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. Farmer-general Etym: , one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down. -- Farmers' satin, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. McElrath. -- The king's farmer , one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. Burrill.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FARMER)

• Countryman
• Rustic
• clown
• boor
• compatriot
• swain
• yeoman
• bus
• bandman
• farmer
• agriculturist
• laborer
• peasant
• fellow-countryman
• fellow-subject
• fellowcitizen
• subject
• citizen
• inhabitant
• native

Related words: (words related to FARMER)

• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• FARMERESS
  A woman who farms.
• CLOWNAGE
  Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• SWAINLING
  A little swain.
• PEASANT
  A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind. (more info) with the p.pr. of verbs), païsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays
• PEASANTLY
  Peasantlike. Milton.
• FARMERY
  The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• CLOWN
  Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
• CLOWNISH
  Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
• YEOMANRY
  1. The position or rank of a yeoman. "His estate of yeomanry." Chaucer. 2. The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders. The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion. Bancroft. 3. The yeomanry cavalry. Yeomanry cavalry,
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• SUBJECTLESS
  Having no subject.
• CITIZENSHIP
  The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• SUBJECTIVE
  Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. Syn. -- See Objective. Subjective sensation , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• UNDERLABORER
  An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
• DENOMINATIVE
  Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.