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peasantry Definition

peas·antry (pez′ən trē)

noun

  1. peasants collectively
  2. a peasant's rank or condition

peasantry Synonyms

peasantry

n.

  1. The masses

    rank and file, commonality, commonalty, proletariat; see people 3.

  2. 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?