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
A quiet, knobbly-browed Scotsman, he has been playwright, actor, newsman, publisher, lawyer, justice of the peace, agriculturist, tax expert, Wartime propagandist, soldier, lecturer, mountain-climber, angler.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman�and now, it seemed, officially a war hero.
From Time Magazine Archive
They needed not to be told that he was not an agriculturist.
From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis
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