husbandman
pronunciation
How to pronounce husbandman in British English:
UK ['hʌzbəndmən]
How to pronounce husbandman in American English:
US ['hʌzbəndmən]
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- Noun:
- a person who operates a farm
Word Origin
- husbandman
- c. 1300, "head of a family;" early 14c., "tiller of the soil," from husband (n.) + man (n.).
Example
- 1. The everage american was an educated husbandman .
- 2. The practices and methods are not the true cause of the transfer of consciousness but they serve to remove obstacles , just as the husbandman prepares his ground for sowing .
- 3. Once the hero of jefferson , the virtuous husbandman , he was the rube , the hick , the hayseed .
- 4. It was not money that lured the adolescent husbandman to the cities , but the gay life .
- 5. He is still watching them from his dwelling place , the sun still shines on them ; but before the harvest , the whole of the proud army of assyria is smitten as easily as when sprigs are cut off by the pruning hook of the husbandman .