peasantry
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈpɛzəntri/
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campesinado
- The "liberation" of the peasantry came only in the early 1950s.
- landless peasantry
- rural peasantry
- Chinese peasantry
And, and so the, the, the Cossacks, the Cossack legend, the struggling peasantry, right?
- And, and so the, the, the Cossacks, the Cossack legend, the struggling peasantry, right?
- How do we sort of, you know, balance the interests and rights of the peasantry vis a vis the industrial proletariat?
- I think that's, it's that patronising, pointing at the, the plebs down in the, the peasantry as they walk past and saying we know what's best for you.
- Additionally, the peasantry had spent the last few years being taxed dry to fund the endless wars.
- All the while the Communists strengthened their hold over the peasantry with a combination of violence and land reform.
- And now built his base in the peasantry, then came down to the city to govern and try to build a base and rule over workers.
Examples
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The U.S. strategy called for winning the "hearts and minds" of the peasantry by land reform.
Academic text (1991) -
The reform policy benefited the peasantry most of all.
Academic text (1992) -
The majority of the peasantry already participate in village elections.
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Compared with the peasantry, workers have gained a lot less from the reforms up to now.
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Now, what do these figures mean to the livelihood of the peasantry?
Academic text (1992) -
And in each empire, the peasantry was itself ethnically diverse.
Academic text (2008) -
In post-famine Ireland, many of the poor peasantry still live on a knife edge, with evictions a constant threat.
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The African peasantry was still not systematically and consistently articulated into the economy.
Academic text (1992) -
Long influenced by traditional culture and ethics, China's peasantry is still marked politically by conservative characteristics.
Academic text (1992) -
In many countries, the peasantry relies heavily on the harvest to sustain their families.
Synonyms
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2.4
People who live in villages or on farms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Peasantry comes from peasant, which comes from an old French word that meant 'country' and is like the English word country. So a peasant was originally someone 'from the country', and peasantry means the rural people or farmers who live in the countryside.