peasantry Definition
peas·antry (pez′ən trē)
noun
- peasants collectively
- a peasant's rank or condition
peasantry Synonyms
peasantry
n.
The masses
rank and file, commonality, commonalty, proletariat; see people 3.Vulgarity
crudity, impropriety, indelicacy; see meanness 1, rudeness.
peasantry Usage Examples
Converse of object
- lead: The first stage was the popular uprising under Wallace and Andrew Moray, whose backbone was an armed peasantry led by minor gentry.
- irrigate: In rural areas, the new business affected the irrigating peasantry whose traditional and self managed water systems and uses were at risk.
- exploit: It was the Bolshevik state not the bag traders who acted like a capitalist in its merciless attempts to exploit the peasantry.
- oppress: He differs from Amos, however, in being more deeply in sympathy with the sufferings of the oppressed peasantry.
- represent: In 1891 Lenin passed his Law exam with high honors, whereupon he took to representing the poorest peasantry in Samara.
- work: The voice of the working peasantry was not heard.
Preposition: as
force: There was no reawakening of the peasantry as a revolutionary force.
Adjective modifier
- Russian: To the whole Russian peasantry In struggle you will find your rights!
- Irish: Evidence against The Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland did little to help the everyday lives of the Irish peasantry.
- poor: Thirdly, the poor peasantry must be united against the rural bourgeoisie which currently holds surplus grain stocks.
- middle: There is a class war going on in the villages but it is of the poor and middle peasantry against the kulaks.
- rural: The old methods of subsistence farming disappeared with the rural peasantry.
- English: He undertook the first serious and sustained attempt to collect the traditional songs of the English peasantry and workers, predominantly in West Devon.
Modifies a noun
cannot: A revolution in which the prime force is the peasantry cannot rise to the height of the tasks posed by history.
Noun used with modifier
toiling: Such a conflict of opinion cannot provide nourishment for other parties within the working class and among the toiling peasantry.
Preposition: in
- revolution: That was the natural and inevitable reciprocal relations between proletariat and peasantry in the Revolution.
- order: The minister should have been denounced for wanting to disorganise the peasantry in order to moderate and regiment it.
- country: Does it not stare one in the face, this complete non-comprehension and ignoring of the peasantry in a country like Russia?
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