smallholder vs husbandman

smallholder and husbandman both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
smallholder	Yes	No	No	No
husbandman	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, husbandman is a hypernym of smallholder; that is, husbandman is a word with a broader meaning than smallholder:

Other hypernyms of smallholder include farmer, granger, sodbuster.

smallholder (noun)	husbandman (noun)
a person owning or renting a smallholding	a person who operates a farm