HUSBANDMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does husbandman mean? 

• HUSBANDMAN (noun)
  The noun HUSBANDMAN has 1 sense:

1. a person who operates a farm

  Familiarity information: HUSBANDMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUSBANDMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who operates a farm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster

Hypernyms ("husbandman" is a kind of...):

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "husbandman"):

contadino (an Italian farmer)

agriculturalist; agriculturist; cultivator; grower; raiser (someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil)

apiarist; apiculturist; beekeeper (a farmer who keeps bees for their honey)

dairy farmer; dairyman (the owner or manager of a dairy)

arboriculturist; forester; tree farmer (someone trained in forestry)

plantation owner; planter (the owner or manager of a plantation)

rancher (a person who owns or operates a ranch)

smallholder (a person owning or renting a smallholding)

small farmer (a farmer on a small farm)

sower (someone who sows)

stock farmer; stock raiser; stockman (farmer who breed or raises livestock)

tenant farmer (a farmer who works land owned by someone else)

tiller (someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops))

 Context examples 

It was only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of a husbandman,) in a dish of about four-and-twenty feet diameter.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For reply he reached over and took my ear in his hand and pulled it playfully, as he used long ago to do at lectures, and said: The good husbandman tell you so then because he knows, but not till then.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He stopped and looked at me, and said:—My friend John, when the corn is grown, even before it has ripened—while the milk of its mother-earth is in him, and the sunshine has not yet begun to paint him with his gold, the husbandman he pull the ear and rub him between his rough hands, and blow away the green chaff, and say to you: 'Look! he's good corn; he will make good crop when the time comes.'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But you do not find the good husbandman dig up his planted corn to see if he grow; that is for the children who play at husbandry, and not for those who take it as of the work of their life.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)