Synonyms for farmers

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fahr-mer

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɑr mər

Top 10 synonyms for farmers

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Définition of farmers

Origin : late 14c., "one who collects taxes, etc.," from Anglo-French fermer, French fermier, from Medieval Latin firmarius, from firma (see farm (n.)). In the agricultural sense, 1590s, replacing native churl and husbandman.

noun person who produces crops, raises animals

Example sentences :

In this respect he is better than a dozen farmers each with his two blades of grass.
Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith

He had some relations who were farmers, whom he often visited; to them he was probably gone.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

They promoted good feeling between the farmers and their labourers.
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

The farmers from Euclid and Newburgh came in with twenty-eight yoke of cattle.
Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin

He was trying to form a union among the laborers, and the farmers were up in arms.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

ONCE upon a time there were ten farmers, who were crossing a field together.
Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

In early times most of the Romans were farmers or cattle raisers.
Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne

But have the farmers of this State, as a class, heretofore recognized this fact?
Extract from : « Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 » by Henry Howland Crapo

When the price of wool is high, the farmers are too reluctant to sell off their sheep, and thus become liable to an overstock.
Extract from : « Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 » by Henry Howland Crapo

But what was the social position of the farmers, let me ask—even in this highly favored country—fifty or sixty years ago?
Extract from : « Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 » by Henry Howland Crapo

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