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 Four score and three thousand songs ago, in the middle of a whopping winter storm, a sharecropper and his young wife brought forth upon this continent a baby girl named Dolly Parton. — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026 Lee was a sharecropper who sometimes worked construction jobs to make ends meet, and Avie was a homemaker. — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026 Wilson grew up in Louisiana as the son of a sharecropper and ran away from home with just an elementary education. — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026 Johnson, who was born in a sharecropper’s shack in Mississippi in 1927, moved to Chicago with his mother at age 2. — Reuters, NBC news, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sharecropper

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Noun

But the Delgado’s don’t suddenly become brilliant homesteaders, quite the opposite.

— Solitaire Townsend, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Disputes between the landowners and homesteaders continued for months and mostly played out in newspaper editorials, the Clio said.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of homesteader

Noun

In 2019, González was introduced to Rocha, who had a reputation as a cultivator of Black and brown political talent.

— Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
Cut, trim and prune with loppers, shears, snips and more, dig and weed with scoops, trowels, weeders and more and take and cultivate with cultivators and rakes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of cultivator

Noun

The planters are original to the stadium’s 1962 construction, and many had crumbled badly enough over the decades to need painstaking repair.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
With the fall harvest already started, diesel is powering tractors, planters, and harvesters.

— Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of planter

Noun

Corn and soybean growers reported that a single large combine harvester consumes roughly 200 gallons of diesel per day.

— , CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
Aggressively extracting oil from its iwashi resources, Imperial Japan became the world’s largest harvester of the fish.

— Pei-Hsu Lin, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of harvester

Noun

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
According to Mason Huddleston, an urban agriculturalist at Oklahoma State University Extension, one of the plant’s most distinguishing features is its smooth, hollow stem, marked with purple or reddish-purple spots.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of agriculturist

Noun

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
Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Alexis Ohanian have effectively dubbed themselves amateur yeoman, putting the ultrarichs’ hobby of tending to the land in the spotlight.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of yeoman

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