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...
- 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...
- The People's Republic of China (PRC) primarily produces rice, wheat, potatoes, tomatoes, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed, corn and...
- revolutionaries". The attempt to get the peasantry to overthrow the Tsar proved unsuccessful, due to the peasantry's idolisation of the latter as someone...
- The Right-Bank Uprising was initiated by Right-Bank peasantry, supported by Cossack-Russian troops against Right-Bank Hetman Pavlo Teteria and Poland-Lithuania...
- taille (French pronunciation: [taj]) was a direct land tax on the French peasantry and non-nobles in Ancien Régime France. The tax was imposed on each household...
- medievalism including ritual, clerical chants and the daily experience of the peasantry. Their music combined modern electronics, tape loops and samplers with...
- Vilayet of the Hejaz. Muslims of Anatolia and some parts of the Balkans. Among peasantry and non-elite urban po****tion. In literature and by elites....