Definitions for gentleman-farmer

gentleman-farmer gen·tle·man-farm·er

Spelling: [jen-tl-muh n-fahr-mer]
IPA: /ˈdʒɛn tl mənˈfɑr mər/

Gentleman-Farmer is a 16 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1023 anagrams from letters in gentleman-farmer (-aaeeefglmmnnrrt).

Definitions for gentleman-farmer

noun

  1. a man whose wealth or income from other sources permits him to farm for pleasure rather than for basic income.
  2. a man whose income from his farm has freed him from the necessity of physical labor.

Origin of gentleman-farmer

First recorded in 1740-50

Examples for gentleman-farmer

My father was a yeoman—an independent, or, as he was sometimes styled, a gentleman-farmer.

The successful speculator was Mr. Saxon, a gentleman-farmer, near Shepton Mallet.

There'd only be the vicar and the local doctor, or p'r'aps a gentleman-farmer or two.

The predominant class is what one might call the gentleman-farmer, with the stress perhaps on “gentleman.”

"I'm told that his lordship offered him seven-and-six an acre for the whole of the two fields," said the gentleman-farmer.

Tom Brangwen the father, as he grew older, seemed to mature into a gentleman-farmer.

A gentleman-farmer of the neighbourhood was put into prison under the pretence that he talked German too much!

We may be allowed to think that the "gentleman-farmer" has chosen the better part.

Of these we may specially mention Mr. Lawrence Twentyman, who was quite the gentleman-farmer.

She was very angry because Marriott, a gentleman-farmer from Ambergate, called her the little pole-cat.

Word Value for gentleman-farmer
Scrable

12

Words with friends

17

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