husbandmen

Those who cultivate

Husbandmen is the plural of husbandman, an old-fashioned term for a farmer or one who cultivates the land.

The word derives from an older sense of husband meaning one who manages a household or its resources, before it narrowed to mean a married man.

The husbandmen tended their fields from dawn to dusk.

The term appears frequently in biblical translations and historical texts but is rarely used in contemporary speech.

agricultural

farmers

Land-cultivating occupation holders

agrarians · yeomen · peasants · farmhands · growers · croppers · planters · harvesters · reapers · sowers

biblical

tillers

Soil-turning implements or shoots

laborers · Matthew · sowers · tenants · harvest · wicked · servants · Lord · fig tree · talents

archaic

stewardship

Responsible care of entrusted things

livestock · breeding · cultivation · animal care · flock · herd · pastoral · rural · agrarian · domestication

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occupation/livelihood

husbandmenmerchants

Those who conduct commerce

tradesmen · craftsmen · artisans · sailors · factory workers

dwelling/habitat

husbandmencity dwellers

People living in metropolises

urbanites · townsmen · townsfolk · burghers · metropolitans

relationship to land

husbandmenlandlords

Rental property owners

landowners · absentee landlords · gentry · nobility · tenants

Family

husbandman

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