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farmers

NOUN

person who produces crops, raises animals

Synonyms

STRONGEST

grower laborer peasant producer rancher

STRONG

agriculturalist agriculturist agronomist breeder clodhopper cob cropper cultivator feeder gardener gleaner harvester homesteader horticulturist planter plower reaper sharecropper sower tender tiller villein

WEAK

country person grazer hired hand

Example Sentences

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Others are concerned by the growing numbers of farmers from outside their ancestral lands who now pretend to be Hadzabe to elicit money from tourists.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

While more than 50 percent of the region's rice fields have been prepared, just a fraction have been planted as farmers await the rain.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

This includes farmers, soldiers and people living in rural areas.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

But in some ways, almonds are old news, considering American almond farmers planted their first commercial crop in 1843.

From Salon • May 6, 2026

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari