/ˈfɑː.mə/
Translation
A person whose job is to grow food and keep animals on a farm.
Word origin
From the word farm plus -er meaning a person who does something, from Old French ferme.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- ferme
Grammar
Examples
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"Farmer" is the person who works on the farm.
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"Farmers" is the plural, meaning more than one farmer.
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Here "farmer" tells us the job he did.
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