farmers
- 1Plural of farmer.
Local farmers protested the new water restrictions outside the county office.
A dry summer left many farmers worried about their grain harvest.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s on an agent noun built from the verb farm. The plural carries every meaning of the singular, including the older ones. Historically, farmers of taxes or customs collected duties at a set rate, so 'the farmers' in a history text may mean revenue collectors, not growers. In British use the word especially means farm owners, as distinct from the hired hands who work for them.
farmers is a form of farmer
farmer, noun: A person who works the land or raises livestock, especially as their occupation. Full entry
- Forms
- farmerfarmers plural
- Spelling
- farmer → farmers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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