3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

agriculturist

noun: someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil [syn: {cultivator}, {grower}, {raiser}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Agriculturist \Ag'ri*cul"tur*ist\, noun One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.

The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. --Crabb.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "agriculturist": Bauer, agriculturalist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman

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