workfolk

noun

variants or workfolks
Definition of workfolknext
as in tenant farmer

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  1. tenant farmer
  2. gentleman farmer
  3. subsistence farmer
  4. farmer
  5. yeoman
Noun
  • Marc Savoy was on his grandfather’s farm in Eunice, Louisiana, on the Prairie Faquetaïque, and something enchanting was rising from the catalpa grove, where a tenant farmer named Hiram Courville lived.
    — jeanne malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
  • Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026
Definition of tenant farmer
Noun
  • His father, Golding Constable, a gentleman farmer who had built a lucrative business milling and transporting grain, expected his son John to succeed him.
    — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Part of his mission as an exemplary gentleman farmer was to convince his peers to attend to their estates and, in so doing, bring them back into the fold of solid Roman traditions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
Definition of gentleman farmer
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  • Sena, a subsistence farmer, asked me, on my first morning in town.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of subsistence farmer
Noun
  • The name refers to that farmer and the fruit’s bright citric notes.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The farmers are left to absorb the cost of a transition that served someone else’s agenda.
    — Bart Vollaard, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of farmer
Noun
  • Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Alexis Ohanian have effectively dubbed themselves amateur yeoman, putting the ultrarichs’ hobby of tending to the land in the spotlight.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Sarnoski’s film takes its title from one of those ballads, in which Robin Hood — long before there was any Maid Marian to speak of — was a mere yeoman.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026
Definition of yeoman
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“Workfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workfolk. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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