peasant

Possessives

• revolt: The answer to both questions is in the crisis in feudal society which was the cause of the peasants ' revolt.
• hut: I slept in peasants ' huts, sometimes nine of us in one room.
• cottage: The cottages at Thrislington were larger than the average medieval peasant's cottage.

Converse of object

• starve: In the State farm he was also given excellent meals, in contrast to the starving peasants.
• oppress: The Soviet Press knows how to describe in lurid terms the fate of the oppressed peasants in Poland.
• urge: It was they that urged the peasants to massacre their cattle.

Adjective modifier

• landless: Thousands of hungry landless African peasants in their own country demanding a piece of their own land are effortlessly dismissed.
• illiterate: The educated clergy were not always less cruel than the illiterate peasants.
• Ukrainian: It appears that for officials the national identity of Ukrainian peasants was an unusually sensitive matter.
• ignorant: It was a stunning victory by supposedly ' ignorant European peasants ' .
• Russian: The Russian peasant, that is, the overwhelming mass of the population, still lives in deep poverty.
• poor: The practical work of the poor peasants ' committees, however, embraced all aspects of village life.

Modifies a noun

• revolt: Nevertheless, disputes over land or economic exploitation were not frequent causes of peasant revolts in the South in colonial times in Mexico.
• uprising: He was opposed by left-wing groups, and in 1967 there was a peasant guerrilla uprising led by Ernesto ' Che ' Guevara.
• commune: Pallot J ' Did the Stolypin Land Reform destroy the peasant commune?
• farmer: Only an animal or a peasant farmer can live without money.
• proprietor: The medieval burgesses and the small peasant proprietors were the precursors of the modern bourgeoisie.
• rebellion: In the spring of 1636, a peasant rebellion took place in Angoulême.

Noun used with modifier

• subsistence: Subsistence peasant agriculture was not the subject of any systematic statistical surveys then, he said.