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# farmer

«farmer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who owns or works on a farm, growing crops or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (farmer, farmers)

### meaning for a pupil

A farmer is a person who owns or works on a farm, growing crops or raising animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a person in the story who plants, picks, sells or keeps animals (the numbers are what the farmer has, sells or plants); science: farmers and food, seasons, soil and weather; everyday life: farmers' markets; stories: the farmer and his animals

### examples

- A farmer has 15 sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#x1)
- The farmer sold 40 eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#x2)
- Each farmer planted 6 rows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#x3)
- The farmer picked 120 apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#x4)
- The farmer milks the cows every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#x5)
- We bought apples at the farmers' market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#x6)
- Farmers need rain for their crops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#x7)
- The farmer drove the tractor across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#x8)
- It was the farmer returning home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/#x9)

### note

A person; the numbers are what the farmer has, sells or plants. Trap: none.

### In the corpora

- [Bumblebees can buzz at a special pitch that shakes pollen out of tomato flowers, and farmers use them in greenhouses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/17/)
- [Pale pigs can get sunburnt like fair-skinned people, so farmers sometimes give them shade or sun cream.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/5/)
- [Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/16/)
- [In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/5/)
- [Some farmers smear fences with chilli and grease or burn chilli bricks, because chilli stings elephants' sensitive trunks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «farmer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.