Associations to the word «Smallholder»

Wiktionary

SMALLHOLDER, noun. (British) A person who owns or runs a smallholding.
SMALLHOLDER, noun. (American) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.

Dictionary definition

SMALLHOLDER, noun. A person owning or renting a smallholding.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats