PEASANTRY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The class of peasants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("peasantry" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Meronyms (members of "peasantry"):

peasant (one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers)

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