farmer

Other forms of farmer

plural

farmers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about farmer

What does farmer mean?

farmer means "a person who operates a farm". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in farmer?

farmer has 2 syllables: far-mer. The stress falls on "far". In IPA it is /ˈfɑɹmɚ/.

What is another word for farmer?

Close synonyms include husbandman, granger, sodbuster, James Leonard Farmer, Fannie Farmer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is farmer a common word?

farmer is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.