agriculturist
AmericanEtymology
Origin of agriculturist
First recorded in 1750–60; agriculture + -ist
Example Sentences
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The U.S. inspection service, known by its acronym APHIS, said “we mourn the loss of a bright agriculturist with a budding career.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 9, 2020
The years of experimentation and frustration seem to have mellowed him: he is a guerrilla agriculturist these days, seemingly more concerned with exporting sugar than revolutionary warfare.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the rumor was promptly scotched by at least one knowing agriculturist.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am wondering if the president is a "farmer" or an "agriculturist"?
From Time Magazine Archive
Further awakening was had in the eighteenth century, the chief part of which was given by Jethro Tull, an English agriculturist, who lived, and wrote, and laboured in the cause between 1680 and 1740.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
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