PEASANTRY
Dictionary entry overview: What does peasantry mean? • PEASANTRY (noun)
The noun PEASANTRY has 1 sense:
1. the class of peasants
Familiarity information: PEASANTRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PEASANTRY (noun)
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 (people having the same social or economic status)
Meronyms (members of "peasantry"):
peasant (one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers)
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