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Cottager vs Smallholder - What's the difference?

cottager | smallholder |

As nouns the difference between cottager and smallholder

is that cottager is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc while smallholder is (british) a person who owns or runs a smallholding.

cottager

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.
  • * Elizabeth Gaskell
    • I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
  • (British, slang) One who engages in sex in public lavatories; a practitioner of cottaging.
    • Synonyms
    * (l) * (l)

    smallholder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A person who owns or runs a smallholding.
  • (American) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.
    • "…planters and smallholder's alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because '''small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders." (Wilma P. Dunaway, ''Slavery in the American Mountain South : "Introduction" 9, 2003)