cultivator

a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it encountered an indigenous people who were experienced cultivators of the soil as well as highly skilled craftsmen Synonyms agriculturist (or agriculturalist), agronomist, farmer, grower, planter, tillerRelated Words farmhand, field hand, gleaner, harvester, plowman, reaper; workfolk (or workfolks); crofter [chiefly British], cropper, gentleman farmer, sharecropper, subsistence farmer, tenant farmer, yeoman; homesteader, nester [West]; granger; rancher, ranchero, ranchman; campesinoAntonyms nonfarmer