Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The social class constituted by peasants.
- noun The condition, rank, or conduct of a peasant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Peasants collectively; a body of peasants.
- noun Rusticity; coarseness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.
- noun obsolete Rusticity; coarseness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical Impoverished rural farm workers, either as
serfs , smallfreeholders or hired hands. - noun Ignorant people of the lowest social status;
bumpkins ,rustics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the class of peasants
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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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 Scottish Chiefs 1875
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The lot of women among the tribes, and among the peasantry, is not, from all I hear, an unhappy one.
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Was it Mao who said the peasantry is the sea in which revolutionaries swim?
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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.
DesignerBlog Will 2008
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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.
100,000 and Counting Will 2007
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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.
Migden-Leno Primary Race Gets Even Uglier Ron Buckmire 2007
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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.
Espresso for All My Friends! Doppelganger 2007
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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.
Baby Squash 2007
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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.
DesignerBlog Will 2007
rolig commented on the word peasantry
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).
December 15, 2008
dbekeny commented on the word peasantry
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.
June 11, 2010