"smallholder" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: smallholders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} smallholder (plural smallholders)
  1. A person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer. Categories (topical): People Translations (a person who owns or runs a smallholding): дребен собственик на земя (dreben sobstvenik na zemja) (Bulgarian), husmand [common-gender] (Danish), keuterboer (Dutch), pientilallinen (Finnish), petit exploitant [masculine] (French), μικροκαλλιεργητής (mikrokalliergitís) [masculine] (Greek), kisgazda (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-smallholder-en-noun-en:farmer_with_small_independent_farm Disambiguation of People: 51 49 Disambiguation of 'a person who owns or runs a smallholding': 57 43
  2. (US, historical) A small slaveholder: a person who owns a smallholding (small plantation with slavery). Tags: US, historical Categories (topical): Agriculture, People, Slavery
    Sense id: en-smallholder-en-noun-tD~XavXl Disambiguation of Agriculture: 39 61 Disambiguation of People: 51 49 Disambiguation of Slavery: 39 61 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: landholding

Inflected forms

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