farmer

farmer
I
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. planter, grower, breeder, livestock breeder, stockman, agriculturist, agriculturalist, agronomist, rancher, dirt farmer, tenant farmer, tenant, lessee, homesteader, granger, husbandman, producer, tiller of the soil, cultivator, peasant, peon, herdsman, plowman, sharecropper, operator, farmhand, hired hand, hired man, gentleman farmer, squire, cropper, grazer, cattleman, sheepman, harvester, son of the soil, countryman, yeoman, truck gardener, sower, gleaner, gardener, nurseryman, orchardist, horticulturist, hydroponist, pomologist, viticulturist, settler, migrant worker, migrant, help, farm laborer, picker, campesino (Spanish), villein, sodbuster*.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
agriculturist, cultivator, planter, grower, agrarian, agronomist, granger, sod-buster, rustic, *hayseed, *clodhopper, gardener, sharecropper, rancher, husbandman. ''The staunchest soldiers.''—Cato. ''A handy man with a sense of humus.''—Ed-ward B. White.

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