peas·ant·ry

(pĕz′ən-trē)

1. The social class constituted by peasants.

2. The condition, rank, or conduct of a peasant.

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peasantry

(ˈpɛzəntrɪ)

1. (Sociology) peasants as a class

2. conduct characteristic of peasants

3. the status of a peasant

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peas•ant•ry

(ˈpɛz ən tri)

n.

1. peasants collectively.

2. the status or character of a peasant.

[1545–55]

Peasantry

peasants collectively. a body of peasants, 1553.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

peasantry - the class of peasants

social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class - people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"

peasant - one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

Translations

فَلاّحون، طَبَقَة الفَلاّحين

rolnictvo

bønderbondestand

Bauernschaft

campesinado

paysannerie paysannat

seljaštvo

parasztság

smábændastétt

contado

bondestand

roľníctvo

köylü sınıfıköylüler

农民

peasantry

[ˈpezəntrɪ] N → campesinado m, campesinos mpl

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peasantry

n → Bauernschaft f; (= class, status) → Bauerntum nt

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peasant

(ˈpeznt) noun

a person who lives and works on the land, especially in a poor, primitive or underdeveloped area. Many peasants died during the drought; (also adjective) a peasant farmer.

ˈpeasantry noun

peasants as a group; the peasants of a particular place. What part did the peasantry play in the Russian revolution?

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Sergey Ivanovitch used to say that he knew and liked the peasantry, and he often talked to the peasants, which he knew how to do without affectation or condescension, and from every such conversation he would deduce general conclusions in favor of the peasantry and in confirmation of his knowing them.

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She had never used it herself, but she had read of the practice of eating arsenic among the Styrian peasantry for the purpose of clearing the color, and of producing a general appearance of plumpness and good health.

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When their substance is drained away, the peasantry will be afflicted by heavy exactions.

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There were very few resident landlords in the neighborhood and also very few domestic or literate serfs, and in the lives of the peasantry of those parts the mysterious undercurrents in the life of the Russian people, the causes and meaning of which are so baffling to contemporaries, were more clearly and strongly noticeable than among others.

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Athos is not a man to be thwarted; he, like Porthos, has obliged his peasantry to call him `my lord,' and to dignify his pettifogging place by the name of chateau.

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Pedigree, ancestral skeletons, monumental record, the d'Urberville lineaments, did not help Tess in her life's battle as yet, even to the extent of attracting to her a dancing-partner over the heads of the commonest peasantry. So much for Norman blood unaided by Victorian lucre.

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I pursued my investigations among the peasantry, passing from cottage to cottage.

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The great waters played; and poles were put up in the park and gardens for the happy peasantry, which they might climb at their leisure, carrying off watches, silver forks, prize sausages hung with pink ribbon, &c., at the top.

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It was this deficiency, I considered, while running over in thought the perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people, and while speculating upon the possible influence which the one, in the long lapse of centuries, might have exercised upon the other--it was this deficiency, perhaps, of collateral issue, and the consequent undeviating transmission, from sire to son, of the patrimony with the name, which had, at length, so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the "House of Usher"--an appellation which seemed to include, in the minds of the peasantry who used it, both the family and the family mansion.

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All that Dhulip Singh could do in India he has done, down to the distribution of his photographs among the peasantry. Ho!

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These people, the reader must understand, were an urban population sunken back to the state of a barbaric peasantry, and so without any of the simple arts a barbaric peasantry would possess.

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Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon-worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the grey-haired peasantry; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity.

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