different between farmer vs breeder

English

Etymology

From Middle English fermor, fermer, fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), partly from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma, see farm; and partly from Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”), from feormian (“to purvey, supply, feed”), equivalent to farm +? -er. More at farm.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??m?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??m?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?(?)
• Hyphenation: farm?er

Noun

farmer (plural farmers)

1. A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
2. Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.

   Hyponym: baby farmer

3. (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

4. (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Usage notes

Farmer is probably the last occupational descriptor to have been used as a prefix to a surname in everyday usage: e.g. Farmer Brown. This usage was common until the mid 20th century.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• framer

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?rm?r]
• Hyphenation: far?mer
• Rhymes: -?r

Etymology 1

From the German Farmer, from the French fermier (“farmer”), from the Old French ferme (“farm, rental”), from the Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tribute, food, feast”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provisions, supplies, feast”). More at farm.

Noun

farmer (plural farmerek)

1. farmer

Declension

See also

• földm?ves
• földm?vel?
• gazda

Etymology 2

Shortening of farmeröltözet or farmernadrág.

Adjective

farmer (not comparable)

1. denim

Declension

Noun

farmer (plural farmerek)

1. blue jeans

Declension

Derived terms

• farmernadrág

Polish

Etymology

From English farmer, from Middle English fermor, fermer, fermour, partly from Old French fermier, from Medieval Latin firm?rius, from Latin firma; and partly from Old English feormere, from feormian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?far.m?r/

Noun

farmer m pers (feminine farmerka)

1. (agriculture) farmer (person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock)

   Synonym: rolnik

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) farmerstwo
• (adjective) farmerski

Further reading

• farmer in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• farmer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fârmer/
• Hyphenation: far?mer

Noun

f?rmer m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. farmer

Declension

English

Etymology

breed +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i?d?(?)/
• Rhymes: -i?d?(?)

Noun

breeder (plural breeders)

1. A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally).
2. (slang, derogatory) A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal

     The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders.

3. (gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heterosexual

   • 2010, Walter Lape, Alaska Waters, The Hudson Press (?ISBN)

     My father spoke in a quiet, measured voice that gradually increased in tempo and in volume, “Travis, suppose everyone at this table were gay except you, and I called you a trailer-trash breeder?”

4. Ellipsis of breeder reactor; a type of nuclear reactor that creates more fissile material than it consumes, often used for the production of atomic weapons.
5. (cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.

Derived terms

• stockbreeder

Related terms

• breed
• breeder reactor
• breeding
• brood
• brooding
• purebred, pure-bred

Translations

Further reading

• breeder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• breeder reactor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• breeder (cellular automaton) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rebreed