Definition of "farmer" []

• One who works on or operates a farm. (noun)
• One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits. (noun)
• A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The - er of farmer does not quite say “one who (farms) ” it merely indicates that the sort of person we call a “farmer” is closely enough associated with activity on a farm to be conventionally thought of as always so occupied."
• "«the» or «a»_; thus _«agricola»_ may mean _the farmer, a farmer_, or simply _farmer_."
• "When your farmer is a couple of thousand miles away, that 3rd party certification has a place."