Synonyms and antonyms of Farmers and people who work on farms in American Thesaurus

buckaroo (noun)

Americaninformal a cowboy

cattleman (noun)

someone who owns or takes care of cattle

cowboy (noun)

a man whose job is to take care of cows on a ranch in the U.S.

cowgirl (noun)

a woman whose job is to take care of cows on a ranch in the U.S.

cowhand (noun)

someone whose job is to take care of cows on a ranch in the U.S.

cowpoke (noun)

Americanold-fashioned a cowhand

dirt farmer (noun)

American a very poor farmer who works alone because he does not have enough money to employ people to help him

farmer (noun)

someone who owns a farm or manages it as their job

farmhand (noun)

a field hand

field hand (noun)

American someone whose job is to work outside on a farm

gaucho (noun)

a South American cowboy

goatherd (noun)

someone whose job is to take care of goats

grower (noun)

a person, company, or place that grows a type of plant or crop

hand (noun)

someone who works on a farm

herder (noun)

someone who herds and takes care of a group of animals as their job

hired hand (noun)

someone who is employed to work on a farm, especially for a short period of time

milkmaid (noun)

an old word meaning “a woman whose job is to milk cows”

Okie (noun)

Americanoffensive an insulting word for someone who is poor and works on a farm

peasant (noun)

someone who works on another person’s farm or on their own small farm. This word is used mainly about people in poor countries or people in history

peon (noun)

a farm worker in Latin America, especially one who is very poor and does hard physical work

picker (noun)

a person or machine that picks fruit or other crops

planter (noun)

someone who owns or is in charge of a plantation

plowman (noun)

a man whose job is to control a plow pulled by a horse or an ox

rancher (noun)

someone who owns or manages a ranch or whose job is to work on a ranch

reaper (noun)

in the past, a person or machine that cut and gathered a crop such as wheat

sharecropper (noun)

a farmer who grows crops on someone else’s land and receives part of the money earned from selling the crops

shearer (noun)

someone whose job is to cut the wool from sheep

shepherd (noun)

a man whose job is to take care of sheep

shepherdess (noun)

old-fashioned a woman whose job is to take care of sheep

smallholder (noun)

someone who owns a very small farm

stock breeder (noun)

someone who owns and takes care of animals that will be sold for meat

stockman (noun)

a man whose job is to take care of farm animals

swineherd (noun)

an old word for someone whose job was to take care of pigs

tenant farmer (noun)

a farmer who rents land from someone else

wrangler (noun)

American a cowboy

yeoman (noun)

British an old word for a man who owned the land that he worked on

yeomanry (noun)

British an old word for a group of men who owned the land that they worked on