SUBSISTENCE FARMER Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

subsistence farmer

noun

as in tenant farmer

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nonfarmer

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Noun

Marc Savoy was on his grandfather’s farm in Eunice, Louisiana, on the Prairie Faquetaïque, and something enchanting was rising from the catalpa grove, where a tenant farmer named Hiram Courville lived.

— jeanne malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026

Definition of tenant farmer

Noun

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, 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

Definition of gentleman farmer

Noun

Legal cannabis growers, meanwhile, continue to struggle under the weight of low prices for their products and, according to industry advocates, crushingly high state taxes and compliance costs.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
For some growers, the recent heat also has shortened the harvest window for certain specialty crops.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of grower

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