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agriculturist

American  
[ag-ri-kuhl-cher-ist] / ˌæg rɪˈkʌl tʃər ɪst /
Also agriculturalist

noun

  1. a farmer.

  2. an expert in agriculture.


Etymology

Origin of agriculturist

First recorded in 1750–60; agriculture + -ist


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"We have the land, but quality planting materials are not always available," Leonilyn Ladao, a local agriculturist, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

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

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 William Henry Doolittle

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