tenant farmer vs tenant

tenant farmer and tenant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tenant farmer	Yes	No	No	No
tenant	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, tenant is a hypernym of tenant farmer; that is, tenant is a word with a broader meaning than tenant farmer:

tenant farmer: a farmer who works land owned by someone else
tenant: a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)

Other hypernyms of tenant farmer include farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster.

tenant farmer (noun)	tenant (noun)
a farmer who works land owned by someone else	someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
	any occupant who dwells in a place
	a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)

tenant farmer (verb)	tenant (verb)
	occupy as a tenant