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
Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman�and now, it seemed, officially a war hero.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the rumor was promptly scotched by at least one knowing agriculturist.
From Time Magazine Archive
I learn upon inquiry that the land about here for miles is, for the most part, settled by a thrifty, intelligent and enterprising people, and is well adapted to all the wants of the agriculturist.
From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.
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