granger

noun

Definition of grangernext
as in farmer

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  1. farmer
  2. grower
  3. planter
  4. cultivator
  5. agriculturist
  6. farmhand
  7. harvester
  8. plowman
Noun
  • The fertilizer shortage has raised prices, affecting farmers and food production.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Between 1935 and 1942, federal nurseries distributed over 85 million kudzu seedlings to Southern landowners, and the government offered farmers up to $8 per acre to plant the vine on their land.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of farmer
Noun
  • There’s a school, a post office, a bar and a Corn Grower’s State Bank branch, plus the Midwest Farmer’s Coop where growers sell their produce and buy supplies like feed and fertilizer.
    — Will Weissert, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
  • There's a school, a post office, a bar and a Corn Grower’s State Bank branch, plus the Midwest Farmer's Coop where growers sell their produce and buy supplies like feed and fertilizer.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of grower
Noun
  • All of which, like Paramount CEO Ellison accused Bonta in an August 4 NYT op-ed, makes Bird’s flag planter reek of politics.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Large planters can be pricey and tough to move, while also needing lots of fill material.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of planter
Noun
  • Cut, trim and prune with loppers, shears, snips and more, dig and weed with scoops, trowels, weeders and more and take and cultivate with cultivators and rakes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • This scientific understanding is enabling cultivators to engineer diverse, less pungent strains and driving innovation in discreet, low-odor products like edibles and vapes.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of cultivator
Noun
  • Dressing gardens with compost helps improve soil structure and fertility, supports sustainable gardening practices, keeps ecosystems in balance and can reduce greenhouse gases, agriculturists tell us.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Harvesting, usage, and benefits The type of rooibos predominantly cultivated by the tea industry is the Cederberg region’s Nortier (sometimes called Nortieria), named for the man credited with kick-starting the rooibos tea industry, South African agriculturalist Pieter le Fras Nortier.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
Definition of agriculturist
Noun
  • His upcoming studies in Rural Land & Property Management will come after a summer of hands-on work as a farmhand on King Charles’ Sandringham estate.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But for all the praise Boone showered on Lombard on Friday, the skipper didn’t want to put any sort of timeline on his ETA or comment on whatever boxes the farmhand may still need to check.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026
Definition of farmhand
Noun
  • Aggressively extracting oil from its iwashi resources, Imperial Japan became the world’s largest harvester of the fish.
    — Pei-Hsu Lin, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The final scene shows Kaleb driving a combine harvester, and radioing Clarkson to tell him that his partner, Taya, has gone into labor with his third child.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 May 2026
Definition of harvester
Noun
  • More traditionally, Boötes is a herdsman or a plowman.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 8 May 2026
  • Give your 19th-century plowman a dozen hard ciders, though, and see whether that plays a more significant role in his evening than his urge to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
    — Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
Definition of plowman
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“Granger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/granger. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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