smallholder en · NOUN
Meanings
- A person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
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(US, historical) A small slaveholder: a person who owns a smallholding (small plantation with slavery).
[…] planters and smallholders alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders.
2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 9:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| smallholders | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
slaveholder · slaveowner · farmer · farm holder · landholder · landowner
Relateds
Translations (10)
da husmand (a person who owns or runs a smallholding) · hu kisgazda (a person who owns or runs a smallholding) · fr petit exploitant (a person who owns or runs a smallholding) · pt parvifundiário (a person who owns or runs a smallholding) · pl chłop małorolny (a person who owns or runs a smallholding) · el μικροκαλλιεργητής (a person who owns or runs a smallholding) · nl keuterboer (a person who owns or runs a smallholding) · fi pientilallinen (a person who owns or runs a smallholding) · pl chłopka małorolna (a person who owns or runs a smallholding) · bg дре́бен со́бственик на земя́ (a person who owns or runs a smallholding)