smallholding

See also: small holding

English

Alternative forms

• small holding

Noun

smallholding (plural smallholdings)

1. A small farm.
2. The owning of such a farm.
3. (US, historical) A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less). Contrasted with middling plantation (20–49 slaves) and large plantation (50+ and owned by planters).
   • 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 8:

     […] the larger plantations implemented different crop choices, surveillance strategies, and labor management practices than did smallholdings.

Hypernyms

• landholding

Related terms

• landholder
• smallholder

 

Translations

small farm

• Danish: husmandssted n, husmandsbrug n
• Finnish: pientila (fi)
• Greek: μικροκαλλιέργεια f (mikrokalliérgeia)
• Hungarian: kisbirtok (hu), törpebirtok (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: småbruk n

  Nynorsk: småbruk n