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
I am wondering if the president is a "farmer" or an "agriculturist"?
From Time Magazine Archive
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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.
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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.
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There was no mistaking Mr. Sparkes, notwithstanding he had substituted the disguise of a sailor for that of a jolly agriculturist.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
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