gentleman farmer

Frequency: 3.00.5 per million words

A man who farms for pleasure rather than for profit.

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Examples (20)

  • The gentleman farmer enjoyed showing visitors around his estate.
  • After retiring, he became a gentleman farmer, leaving the day-to-day work to a manager.
  • He was a gentleman farmer who never worried about making a profit.
  • As a gentleman farmer, he visits the fields on weekends but rarely lifts a tool.
  • As a wealthy gentleman farmer, he could afford the finest equipment.
  • The trust funds the estate, and the gentleman farmer simply oversees the books.
  • The gentleman farmer treated agriculture as his favorite hobby.
  • Neighbors call him a gentleman farmer: he owns the land, but hired hands do the labor.
  • She married a gentleman farmer who owned several hundred acres.
  • She married a gentleman farmer who treats the farm as a hobby rather than a job.
  • The old gentleman farmer spent his retirement cultivating rare orchids.
  • He has always styled himself a gentleman farmer, content to host tastings and garden tours.
  • Unlike commercial farmers, the gentleman farmer farmed purely for pleasure.
  • Not being a gentleman farmer himself, he admires those who manage from the veranda.
  • The gentleman farmer hosted elaborate harvest festivals for the community.
  • He bought a vineyard to play the gentleman farmer while keeping his city job.
  • He played the role of a gentleman farmer in the countryside manor.
  • In interviews, the gentleman farmer emphasizes conservation, not crop yields.
  • The gentleman farmer experimented with sustainable farming methods.
  • By next spring, he will be a gentleman farmer, with a foreman running the operation.