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noun
A person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: farmer, farm holder, landholder, landowner
noun
A small slaveholder: a person who owns a smallholding (small plantation with slavery).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
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Broader terms: slaveholder, slaveowner
noun
a person owning or renting a smallholding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: farmer, husbandman, granger, sodbuster
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Across languages
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