gentleman farmer

collocation in English

meaningsofgentlemanandfarmer

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gentleman
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʒen.təl.mən/us
/ˈdʒen.t̬əl.mən/
a polite way of talking to or referring to ...
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farmer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɑː.mər/us
/ˈfɑːr.mɚ/
someone who owns or takes care of ...
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(Definition ofgentlemanandfarmerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Jane married agentlemanfarmerand is considering writing historical novels.
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Otis was agentlemanfarmerof the era.
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Pickering was agentlemanfarmer, running agricultural experiments on the farm and taking detailed notes of his work.
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Williams was a self-madegentlemanfarmer, and a prominent lawyer and politician.
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The house should then be recognized as a testament to the builder, who buy all accounts was a quiet, honest yet resourceful and imaginativegentlemanfarmer.
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The house was more like a large gentleman farmer's house (which is what it originally was) than a fashionable mansion, but that did not bother him.
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It contained farms that were a mixture of humble family farms as well as country estates for gentleman farmers.
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The definition of agentlemanfarmeris a man who is not much of a gentleman and less of a farmer.
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You are what is called agentlemanfarmer.
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I looked at his hands—they were not the hands of agentlemanfarmer; they were thick and calloused.
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There is a vast difference between being agentlemanfarmerand being a farm labourer.
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I know one man who was agentlemanfarmer.
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The money was paid at the very end of the year, by the way, so that the oldgentlemanfarmermight not lose any interest on it.
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The former owner was agentlemanfarmerwith a wife and two children.
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He turned the grounds into a vineyard and spent the rest of his life making wine and living as agentlemanfarmer.
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Thegentlemanfarmerhas an independent source of income and farms for pleasure rather than for money.
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He was agentlemanfarmerwho worked in the city and farmed on the side.
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However, he spent most of his life as agentlemanfarmer, looking after the family estate.
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He had a house built on the estate, most of which he operated as agentlemanfarmer.
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It is a complex of buildings assembled by agentlemanfarmerin the early 19th century that remain intact today.
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By the late 1840s he was financially secure enough to retire, and he became agentlemanfarmer.
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He was agentlemanfarmerwho became a record holding breeder of shorthorn cattle and at one point was credited with the best shorthorn herd in the country.
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