peasantry
About 3.06 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
- noun Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
- noun The condition of being a peasant; the position, rank, conduct, or quality of a peasant.
Similar words
peasant campesino farming farmers serfs husbandmen tillers cultivators smallholders campesinos
Often followed by
and of in was to were as is had
Word family
peasantries
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