fermier
French, noun/fɛʁ.mje/
fermier is spelled F-E-R-M-I-E-R (7 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written French, the 11,928th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fermier is a French masculine noun meaning “farmer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agriculteur, cultivateur, paysan”.
What does fermier mean in English?
adjective
- 1
farmer
noun
- 1
masculinefarmer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Agriculteur, cultivateur, paysan. 2. Celui qui tient à ferme une propriété agricole. 3. Celui qui prend à ferme des terres ou des droits. 4. Ceux auxquels les droits du roi étaient affermés.
adjective: 1. Relatif à la ferme, au fermage, au fermier. 2. Fabriqué, en parlant d’un fromage, avec du lait produit et transformé sur une seule ferme.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fermier
- fermière feminine
- fermiers masculine plural
- fermières feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fermier?
- /fɛʁ.mje/
- \fɛʁ.mje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fermier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fermier in French?
fermier appears 4.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).