subsistence farmer

noun

as in tenant farmer

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Recent Examples of subsistence farmer Sena, a subsistence farmer, asked me, on my first morning in town. — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subsistence farmer
  1. tenant farmer
  2. gentleman farmer
  3. grower
Noun
  • Marc Savoy was on his grandfather’s farm in Eunice, Louisiana, on the Prairie Faquetaïque, and something enchanting was rising from the catalpa grove, where a tenant farmer named Hiram Courville lived.
    — jeanne malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
  • Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026
Definition of tenant farmer
Noun
  • His father, Golding Constable, a gentleman farmer who had built a lucrative business milling and transporting grain, expected his son John to succeed him.
    — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Part of his mission as an exemplary gentleman farmer was to convince his peers to attend to their estates and, in so doing, bring them back into the fold of solid Roman traditions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
Definition of gentleman farmer
Noun
  • The strike ended in July 1970 with victory for thousands of Mexican American and Filipino American farmworkers, who reached a collective bargaining agreement with major grape growers.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Providing education for cotton growers, WWF-Türkiye created a guide for optimizing water and soil management.
    — Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of grower

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