peasantry
IPA: pˈɛzʌntri
noun
- (historical) Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
- Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
- The condition of being a peasant; the position, rank, conduct, or quality of a peasant.
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Examples of "peasantry" in Sentences
- Agricultural regression and peasantry.
- It's not definite that they're peasantry.
- Agriculture is dominated by peasantry farming.
- As the yeoman class is considerd to be of the peasantry.
- It is for the broad masses of the proletariat and peasantry.
- It is a given that the peasantry, of course, is class stratified.
- Another very important factor was the social discontent of the peasantry.
- Li Causi denounced the unjust exploitation of the peasantry by the Mafia.
- He appealed to the uneducated peasantry and numerous conversions resulted.
- Her works often idealized rural life and praised the countryside and peasantry.
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