a person who owns or manages a farm 农场主;农人 My parents are dairy farmers. 我父母是奶农。 The land is owned by a local farmer. 这块土地归当地一位农民所有。 A lot of conventional farmers have converted to organic. 许多用传统方法耕作的农民已改为有机耕作。 a new plan to help smallholder farmers 帮助小农的新计划 Settlers were primarily subsistence farmers. 定居者主要是自给自足的农场主。
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French fermier, from medieval Latin firmarius, firmator, from firma ‘fixed payment’, from Latin firmare ‘fix, settle’ (in medieval Latin ‘contract for’), from firmus ‘constant, firm’. The current sense originally denoted ‘a bailiff’ or ‘steward who farmed land on the owner's behalf’, or ‘a tenant farmer’.