noun
Meaning 1
One who plows; one who works land with a plow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Only plowers can expect to become harvesters.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
plower
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noun
Meaning 2
a man who plows
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: plowman, ploughman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: farmhand, fieldhand, field hand, farm worker
History
Etymology
From plow + -er.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Assamese: হালোৱা (halüa) — one who plows
- Dutch: ploeger — one who plows
- Finnish: kyntäjä — one who plows
- French: laboureur — one who plows
- German: Pflüger — one who plows
- German: Pflügerin — one who plows
- Ancient Greek: ἀροτήρ (arotḗr) — one who plows
- Latin: arātor — one who plows
- Latin: arātrix — one who plows
- Polish: oracz — one who plows
- Russian: па́харь (páxarʹ) — one who plows
- Turkish: sabancı — one who plows
- Ottoman Turkish: صبانجی (sabancı) — one who plows
- Volapük: plaudan — one who plows
- Volapük: hiplaudan — one who plows
- Volapük: jiplaudan — one who plows