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Farmer meaning in English

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Farmer

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Noun

1. farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster

a person who operates a farm

2. farmer, james leonard farmer

United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

3. fannie farmer, fannie merritt farmer, farmer

an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)

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Farmer

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noun
1. 
a person who operates or manages a farm
2. 
a person who obtains the right to collect and retain a tax, rent, etc, or operate a franchise for a specified period on payment of a fee
3. 
a person who looks after a child for a fixed sum
noun
John. ?1565–1605, English madrigal composer and organist

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Farmer

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Fannie (Merritt)1857-1915; U.S. teacher & writer on cooking
noun
1. 
a person who earns a living by farming; esp., one who manages or operates a farm
2. 
a person who pays for a right, as, formerly, to collect and keep taxes
3. 
a person who contracts to do something for a fixed price

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Farmer

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American civil rights leader who founded the Congress of Racial Equality (1942), served as its national director (1961-1966), and advocated nonviolent forms of protest.
American cookery expert who edited the Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896), which has undergone many revisions as the Fannie Farmer Cookbook.
n.
1. One who works on or operates a farm.
2. One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.
3. A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.

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