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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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