Found 4 items, similar to Farmer.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: farmer
petani
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: farmer
petani
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: farmer
farmer
n 1: a person who operates a farm [syn:
husbandman,
granger,
sodbuster]
2: United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the
Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) [syn:
James Leonard Farmer
]
3: an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many
editions (1857-1915) [syn:
Fannie Farmer,
Fannie Merritt Farmer
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Farmer
Farmer
\Farm"er\ (f[aum]rm"[~e]r), n. [Cf. F. fermier.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Farmer-general [F. fermier-general], 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 (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection
of a royal revenue was farmed out. --Burrill.
[1913 Webster]