gentleman farmers
Rich leisurely landowners
Gentleman farmers are landowners who farm primarily for pleasure rather than profit, typically having wealth from other sources.
The term suggests someone who enjoys the pastoral lifestyle without depending on agricultural income: He played at being a gentleman farmer on weekends, leaving the real work to hired hands.
The phrase can carry a faint note of dilettantism.
- agrarianRelating to land cultivation
- hobbyistRecreational pursuer of interests
- landownerOne possessing real estate
- country squireRural landholding gentleman
- Enlightenment idealsAge of Reason values
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- landownerslandlords, rancher, freeholders, homesteader, homeowner
gentleman farmerssharecroppers
Farmers paying rent in crops
dirt farmers · smallholders · tenant farmers · peasants · serfs
gentleman farmersserfs
Feudal bound laborers
farmhands · farm laborers · field hands · migrant farmworkers · peasants
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