Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The social class constituted by peasants.
- n. The condition, rank, or conduct of a peasant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Peasants collectively; a body of peasants.
- n. Rusticity; coarseness.
Wiktionary
- n. historical Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
- n. Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.
- n. obsolete Rusticity; coarseness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the class of peasants
Etymologies
- From peasant + -ry, from Middle English paissaunt. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Of course, I described it as the petition of the nobility, clergy, gentry, yeomanry, and peasantry of the county of ----; and, could you believe it, they struck out _peasantry_ as”
“The regent's arrival soon spread throughout the province, and the hall of the castle was speedily crowded with chieftains, come to pay their respects to their benefactor; while an army of grateful peasantry from the hills filled the suburbs of the town, begging for one glance only of their beloved lord.”
“The lot of women among the tribes, and among the peasantry, is not, from all I hear, an unhappy one.”
“Was it Mao who said the peasantry is the sea in which revolutionaries swim?”
“Only after the post-war GI Bill-higher education advancement by the peasantry was the Counsel free to justify society's ACTUAL breakdown into godlessness and the current state of society today.”
“The peasantry are a handsome intelligent race; and there was a gladsome sunny heaven spread over us, that rendered home and every scene we visited cheerful and bright.”
“Below the peasantry was a slave class, some state-owned and some in private hands.”
“This means that it must be understood clearly that the revolution which represents the basic interests of the workers 'class and the peasantry is a process, and that in this process it is necessary to try to win over the largest possible number of the elements in the middle population sectors.”
“When he wished to express his affection in the vivacious and significant manner ordinarily employed among the peasantry, that is to say, by vigorous embracing and resounding kisses, he met with unexpected resistance.”
“In this village are three priests, (Greek orthodox,) idle, ignorant, and coarse men; but the peasantry are a bold set of fellows, speaking and acting very independently of clerical domination, -- very indifferent as to whether they shall turn Protestants or Papists.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peasantry’.
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WOOZ
Words contained in the screenplay of Wizard of Oz, 1939 film.
Comments show the actual "line" from the film.
The words are tagged for grade-levelpusillanimous, genuflect, cataclysmic, vernacular, peasantry, aver, caliginous, tedious, advent, careworn, bovine, commodity and 34 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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pocketful of -ry
I'm curious about collectives formed with the suffix -ry. This list does not include words that primarily refer to a condition or relationship (rivalry is not a group of rivals) or to a practice or...
jewelry, circuitry, citizenry, jewry, masonry, freemasonry, peasantry, hobbitry, gannetry, mavenry, studentry, cousinry and 3 more...
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Classassin
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arriviste, parvenu, gigmania, dyvoury, thugly, déclassé, stalko, sudden loss of we..., guttersnipe, mesocracy, nouveau riche, bourgeois and 71 more...
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May12CV
badge value, rap, used to, hold, takes place, suddenly, perceived, constitutes, knock off, hedonic, tinkering, tedious and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for peasantry.
dbekeny PROFESSOR
Better get under cover, Sylvester --
there's a storm blowing up -- a whopper, to
speak in the vernacular of the peasantry.
Poor little kid -- I hope she gets home all
right.
Jun 11, 2010
rolig One of the few words in English where the suffix -ry indicates a class or group of people (some others are Jewry, citizenry, and Freemasonry). Dec 15, 2008