campesinos

noun

plural of campesino
as in farmers

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  1. farmers
  2. growers
  3. agriculturists
  4. agronomists
  5. cultivators
  6. planters
  7. sharecroppers
Noun
  • Another farmer, Rymondy Mrosso, also questioned whether pesticides used by local farmers could explain the deaths and wondered why only elephants appeared to have been affected.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Ag issues Candidates appeared aligned on some agriculture issues, such as investing in the emerging biofuel industry and the next generation of farmers.
    — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of farmers
Noun
  • Investigations are ongoing into how cyanide found its way to an ecosystem where wild and domestic animals coexist and farms grow tomatoes and onions, but growers are disputing claims that cyanide from their tomatoes killed the elephants.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The pause left Mexican growers out of tens of millions of dollars and temporarily sent the price of a carton of the fruit in the US soaring by 40 percent, according to analysis firm RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of growers
Noun
  • Dressing gardens with compost helps improve soil structure and fertility, supports sustainable gardening practices, keeps ecosystems in balance and can reduce greenhouse gases, agriculturists tell us.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.
    — DP Opinion, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026
Definition of agriculturists
Noun
  • Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.
    — Evelyne Musambi, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Cattle were raised, and various crops (including corn [maize] and cotton) were grown with the assistance of agronomists.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Definition of agronomists
Noun
  • Wheat farmers in Britain, sugar beet growers in central Europe, tobacco planters in Virginia and cotton cultivators across the American South all embraced the new fertilizer.
    — Edward D. Melillo, Fortune, 27 July 2026
  • Its inhabitants remain largely indifferent to the independence movement; village elders reason that freedom will benefit the educated while cultivators will merely exchange one set of masters for another.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Definition of cultivators
Noun
  • HyeFlora Artificial Faux Hanging Plant One of my favorite things to do outdoors is decorate my front porch with hanging planters, and while there’s nothing like fresh flowers, having multiple planters at once can be a pain to maintain.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The British government borrowed 20 million pounds — equal to about 40% of its national budget — to reimburse planters for the loss of their slaves, considered by the law of the day to be property.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of planters
Noun
  • Born to sharecroppers in South Carolina and raised in Harlem, New York, Gibson lived in a world far from white country clubs or Black luxury.
    — Sophia Zhang, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • All my grandparents were sharecroppers in Mississippi before migrating to Gary in the late 1920s.
    — Lori Latham, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
Definition of sharecroppers
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