tillers

noun

plural of tiller
as in farmers
a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it in his paintings farmers are invariably depicted as brawny yet noble tillers of the land

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Recent Examples of tillers America has largely been out of tune regarding that refrain, but its greatest defenders of democracy and its tillers for a better world have not. — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2025
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  1. farmers
  2. cultivators
Noun
  • Another farmer, Rymondy Mrosso, also questioned whether pesticides used by local farmers could explain the deaths and wondered why only elephants appeared to have been affected.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Ag issues Candidates appeared aligned on some agriculture issues, such as investing in the emerging biofuel industry and the next generation of farmers.
    — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of farmers
Noun
  • Wheat farmers in Britain, sugar beet growers in central Europe, tobacco planters in Virginia and cotton cultivators across the American South all embraced the new fertilizer.
    — Edward D. Melillo, Fortune, 27 July 2026
  • Its inhabitants remain largely indifferent to the independence movement; village elders reason that freedom will benefit the educated while cultivators will merely exchange one set of masters for another.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Definition of cultivators

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