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agriculturist

American  
[ag-ri-kuhl-cher-ist] / ˌæg rɪˈkʌl tʃər ɪst /
Also agriculturalist

noun

  1. a farmer.

  2. an expert in agriculture.


Etymology

Origin of agriculturist

First recorded in 1750–60; agriculture + -ist

Example Sentences

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From 1883, when Long Island real estate speculations forced Orange Judd to sell his interest, until 1922, when Henry Morgenthau Jr. bought it, the Agriculturist went slowly to seed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last May the Agriculturist, beneath its masthead of cows, a tractor, an orchard and a silo, was the first U. S. paper to make a practice of printing gold prices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years ago, said Agriculturist Bennett, a former county agent from North Carolina named Horace Holmes went to India as an adviser on village improvement to the Indian government.

From Time Magazine Archive

Henry Morgenthau Jr. of Manhattan, son of the onetime Ambassador to Turkey, publisher of the American Agriculturist, was appointed and confirmed as a member of the Federal Farm Board.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would try to get to be Agriculturist for the district, and would ask the principal and the schoolmaster to help him.

From Ovind A Story of Country Life in Norway by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne