Synonyms of gentleman farmer

gentleman farmer

noun

as in tenant farmer

Related Words

• tenant farmer
• subsistence farmer
• grower
• yeoman
• planter
• cropper
• sharecropper
• cultivator
• agriculturist
• tiller
• agronomist
• harvester
• field hand
• crofter
• reaper
• farmhand
• plowman
• gleaner
• workfolk
• homesteader
• nester
• granger
• ranchman
• campesino
• rancher
• ranchero

Dissimilar Words

• nonfarmer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gentleman farmer

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, 4 Feb. 2026

California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023

And if tuning out entirely isn’t your speed, such activities as foraging, beekeeping, flower collecting, and focaccia baking are all available to bolster the gentleman farmer vibe. — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 June 2023

Saint Isidore is depicted as a 19th-century hidalgo, or gentleman farmer, with a giant staff loosening a gush of water from the earth for the peasants at his feet. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023

Dior himself was a gentleman farmer, and his ornamental garden has been preserved. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019