farmer

From Middle English fermor, ffermer, fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), partly 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, see farm; and partly from Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”), from feormian (“to purvey, supply, feed”), equivalent to farm +‎ -er. More at farm.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑɹmɚ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɑːmə/

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

farmer (plural farmers)

1. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
   • 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. Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.
3. (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

   a farmer of the revenues

4. (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

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.

• framer

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

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

• földműves
• földművelő
• gazda

Shortening of farmeröltözet or farmernadrág.

farmer (not comparable)

1. denim

farmer (plural farmerek)

1. blue jeans

• farmernadrág

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

fȁrmer m (Cyrillic spelling фа̏рмер)

1. farmer