gentleman-farmer
noun
a man whose wealth or income from other sources permits him to farm for pleasure rather than for basic income.
gentlemen-farmers
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pluralof gentleman-farmer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When they come into some money, they move to Normandy and become gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables."
From Time Magazine Archive
"But there be four gentlemen-farmers that have come a great distance, and all the first floor is engaged; you will be more out of the noise here."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
There were also gentlemen-farmers, neatly, trimly, and fashionably dressed, in handsome surtouts and trousers, strapped under their boots.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
The three succeeding Virginia Presidents were sons of gentlemen-farmers, and belonged to the cultivated gentry of the Old Dominion.
From The Nation in a Nutshell by George M. (George Makepeace) Towle
The excellent grammar-schools in Inverness, Fortrose, and Dunkeld sent out men well-informed, excellent classical scholars, and these from among that order which in England is the most illiterate—the gentlemen-farmers.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
