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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Baerwald will be in conversation with Graham Yost, executive producer of “The Americans “and “Slow Horses” at Barnes & Noble - The Grove at Farmers Market on June, 11 at 7 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Farmers are finding other ways to reduce fertilizer costs, as well, but those efforts can have an impact on the quality of their crops.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Farmers in the area said they were not warned early enough to avoid losses to equipment and crops.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

The risk that a claim will result in no payment among the group—State Farm, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, United Services Automobile Association and Farmers Insurance—shot up from 36% a decade earlier, according to the analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Farmers had corn growing in fields and fields around here, but for some reason trying to grow one small row of it never worked out.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon