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TENANT FARMER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tenant farmer mean?
• TENANT FARMER (noun)
The noun TENANT FARMER has 1 sense:
1. a farmer who works land owned by someone else
Familiarity information: TENANT FARMER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A farmer who works land owned by someone else
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("tenant farmer" is a kind of...):
farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster (a person who operates a farm)
tenant (a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease))
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