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

For a welcoming fall porch look, place the fluffy stems in matching planters on either side of your entryway and surround them with gourds and lanterns.

— Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2026
The space unfolds around trees far older than its walls, with trunks cutting through the floors and coffee planters surrounding the interior.

— Nikkita Nair, Saveur, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of planter

Noun

Vendors and growers carry in their selections from different parts of the city and greater New England, making the lively market feel like a center for the region’s resurgence of artisan crafts and family farming.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
Other names on Morgan Stanley's list of consistent dividend growers include Nvidia , Royal Caribbean and Capital One Financial .

— Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of grower

Noun

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
The final scene shows Kaleb driving a combine harvester, and radioing Clarkson to tell him that his partner, Taya, has gone into labor with his third child.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 May 2026

Definition of harvester

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
Harvesting, usage, and benefits The type of rooibos predominantly cultivated by the tea industry is the Cederberg region’s Nortier (sometimes called Nortieria), named for the man credited with kick-starting the rooibos tea industry, South African agriculturalist Pieter le Fras Nortier.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of agriculturist

Noun

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
Sarnoski’s film takes its title from one of those ballads, in which Robin Hood — long before there was any Maid Marian to speak of — was a mere yeoman.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026

Definition of yeoman

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