Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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farmer

UK /ˈfɑː.mə/ · US /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms farmers

  1. noun A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
  2. noun (strictly, especially UK) More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
  3. noun (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent. “a farmer of the revenues”
  4. noun (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
  5. noun (Singapore, slang) A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
  6. noun (dated) A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
  7. proper noun A surname.
  8. proper noun (NATO code name) the Soviet MiG 19 aircraft.
  9. proper noun A township in Rice County, Kansas.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Randolph County, North Carolina.
  12. proper noun A township and unincorporated community therein, in Defiance County, Ohio.
  13. proper noun A small town in Hanson County, South Dakota.

Synonyms

husbandman neif serf villein granger sodbuster James Leonard Farmer Fannie Farmer Fannie Merritt Farmer

Etymology

From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), 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; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart.

Etymology [Cf. F. fermier.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “farmer”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “farmer” (best matches first).