Definition of Peasantry. Meaning of Peasantry. Synonyms of Peasantry

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Definition of Peasantry

Peasantry
Peasantry Peas"ant*ry, n. 1. Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. ``A bold peasantry.' --Goldsmith. 2. Rusticity; coarseness. [Obs.] --p. Butler.

Meaning of Peasantry from wikipedia

- incorporating all its condescending and racial overtones". The word peasantry is commonly used in a non-pejorative sense as a collective noun for the...
- serf property, but took some actions to alleviate the situation of the peasantry. Emperor Alexander I (r. 1801–1825) wanted to reform the system but moved...
- pagan or Christian. Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry". During and after the Middle Ages, the term paganism was applied to any...
- China primarily produces rice, wheat, potatoes, tomato, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed, corn and soybeans. The development of farming...
- In real estate, a landed property or landed estate is a property that generates income for the owner (typically a member of the gentry) without the owner...
- in 1453. The Bulgarian nobility was subsequently eliminated and the peasantry was enserfed to Ottoman masters, while much of the educated clergy fled...
- Antoinette did not say "let them eat cake" when she heard that the French peasantry were starving due to a shortage of bread. The phrase was first published...
- the sultan was often seen as an ally of the peasantry, for it was considered his duty to protect the peasantry from both corrupt elites and outside forces...
- corvée to a great modernised army. He introduced conscription of the male peasantry in 19th century Egypt, and took a novel approach to create his great army...
- revolutionaries". The attempt to get the peasantry to overthrow the Tsar proved unsuccessful, due to the peasantry's idolisation of the latter as someone...