farmer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who operates a farm
    granger; sodbuster; husbandman.
  2. noun United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
    James Leonard Farmer.
  3. noun an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
    Fannie Farmer; Fannie Merritt Farmer.

WordNet

Farm"er noun
Etymology
Cf. F. fermier.
Definitions
  1. One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) 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. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. Burrill.

Webster 1913