different between farmer vs provincial

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

From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???v?n(t)??l/, /p???v?n(t)??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???v?n(t)??l/, /p???v?n(t)??l/

Adjective

provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

1. Of or pertaining to a province.

2. Constituting a province.
3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
   • 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson

     […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
   • 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody

     That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.

5. Narrow; illiberal.
6. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.

7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

Synonyms

• rural

Derived terms

• provincially

Translations

Noun

provincial (plural provincials)

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:

     The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.

3. A country bumpkin.

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

provincial (masculine and feminine plural provincials)

1. provincial

French

Etymology

From Latin provincialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.v??.sjal/

Adjective

provincial (feminine singular provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialement
• provincialisme

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciaux)

1. people from the provinces/regions

Further reading

• “provincial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Adjective

provincial (plural provinciais, comparable)

1. provincial

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin provincialis

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciali)

1. provincial

Declension

Related terms

• provincialism
• provincie

Spanish

Adjective

provincial (plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• audiencia provincial