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Rustic vs Farmer - What's the difference?

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Rustic is a related term of farmer.


As nouns the difference between rustic and farmer

is that rustic is a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area while farmer is .

As an adjective rustic

is country-styled or pastoral; rural.

rustic

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
  • * (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
  • She had a rustic , woodland air.
  • Unfinished or roughly finished.
  • Crude, rough.
  • Simple; artless; unaffected.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}

    Derived terms

    * rustic moth * rustic work

    Quotations

    {{timeline, 1700s=17??, 1800s=1818 1820}} * late 1700s — (Robert Burns), *: The Princely revel may survey
    Our rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
  • * 1906 — (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Ch IX
  • The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
  • * 1927-29' — (Mahatma Gandhi), '', Part V, The Stain of Indigo'', translated ' 1940 by (Mahadev Desai)
  • Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics .

    Anagrams

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    farmer

    English

    (wikipedia farmer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who works the land or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine= citation
  • , passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
  • Agent noun]] of farm; someone or something that [[farm#verb, farms.
  • (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
  • a farmer of the revenues
  • (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
  • Anagrams

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