Synonyms of tiller

tiller

noun

ˈti-lər 

as in farmer

a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it

in his paintings farmers are invariably depicted as brawny yet noble tillers of the land

Synonyms & Similar Words

• farmer
• cultivator
• planter
• agriculturalist
• agriculturist
• grower
• agronomist
• harvester
• plowman
• reaper
• yeoman
• farmhand
• gleaner
• homesteader
• cropper
• field hand
• sharecropper
• tenant farmer
• crofter
• gentleman farmer
• subsistence farmer
• rancher
• ranchman
• nester
• workfolk
• campesino
• granger
• workfolks
• ranchero

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonfarmer

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of tiller

While large tillers can be mounted on a tractor and driven off the tractor’s engine by a PTO shaft, homeowner-sized tillers come in two basic arrangements: front tine and rear tine. —Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2024

Equipment like riding mowers, tillers and trimmers filled our garage — each in need of repair due to mistreatment or neglect. —Andrew Torgan, CNN, 18 June 2024

In the stark Antarctic Peninsula, younger passengers will get to handle a zodiac tiller (weather permitting) in the shadow of colossal icebergs and gob-smacking glaciers in search of penguins, seals, and whales. —Kerry Spencer, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Dec. 2023

In the meantime, he’s been tinkering with two generators and a tiller that were also damaged in the storm. —Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2024