SHARECROPPER Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

sharecropper

noun

Definition of sharecropper

as in homesteader

a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops grew up the child of a poor sharecropper

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Recent Examples of sharecropper Her father was an illiterate sharecropper whose 12 children shared a one-room cabin with no running water or electricity. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 8 Sep. 2026 Born in Tallahassee to sharecroppers, Meek was raised during the Jim Crow era and would go on to break racial barriers. — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026 Ford draws from Black and Southern sharecropper traditions of reuse and durability while investigating the relationship among labor, spirituality and textiles in American fashion. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026 Her father, a tobacco sharecropper, couldn’t read or write, and the family lived in a one-room cabin with no electricity. — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sharecropper

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Noun

What began with indigenous residents was carried on by homesteaders, and naturally, this would translate to the pages of the region’s newspaper and household guides.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026
The property includes a 5,000-square-foot main house, three guesthouses, an 1860s original homesteader cabin, private airstrip, airplane hangar, hay barns, and the capacity to run about 600 head of Angus cattle.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of homesteader

Noun

The project also allows vehicle bumpers to extend up to 2 feet over nearby planters.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2026
The site is often visited by tourists and is a monument to the past, the history of slavery, and the wealth amassed by cotton planters in Mississippi.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of planter

Noun

The platform is designed to let growers and group managers reuse existing farm information and review and update their records each year.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
As the 2026 harvest winds down, rising production costs and inadequate crop prices are eating into farmers’ income, particularly among Midwest corn and soybean growers, even with a potential record in government subsidies.

— Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of grower

Noun

In summary, the researchers created a temperature-sensing system that runs on an infinitesimal amount of electricity drawn from ambient radiation by a dedicated graphene energy harvester.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Nov. 2026
Unfortunately for the harvester ants, this toxin doesn’t even slightly deter horned lizards, who eat the ants in large numbers.

— RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of harvester

Noun

After all, from 1773 to 1775, more than thirty-five thousand agriculturalist peasants made war against Russia, in what is commonly referred to as Pugachev’s Rebellion, after the name of its leader.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026
LaRue was a prominent agriculturalist and state legislator, while his son, Jacob Eugene LaRue, was active in efforts to bring University State Farm, the predecessor to UC Davis, to what was then known as Davisville.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of agriculturist

Noun

Jones turned in a yeoman's effort, going 22-35 for 155 passing yards and two touchdowns while also keeping the Longhorn defense honest with his legs.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
The early Robin Hood was no polished folk hero, Jones says, but a violent, devout yeoman pushed to society’s edge by corrupt officials.

— JP Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026

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