PEASANT


Meaning of PEASANT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a peasant revolt (= by people who work on farms )

This was the best-known peasant revolt in Soviet history.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

landless

For illiterate and landless serfs and peasants the language of their landlord made little difference to their lives.

No landless peasants or laid-off workers are using their meager savings to buy sophisticated guns and enter into a career of crime.

local

He demanded the confiscation of all private estates, the nationalization of the land, and its management by local peasant soviets.

It was a Sunday, and the hotel was packed, when 94 local peasants invaded and occupied the hotel.

The local peasant press was in a lamentable condition still.

A lot of the stone went to build houses for the local peasants , who apparently had a tough time.

In the villages the peasant committees consisted entirely of local peasants.

He was beheaded by local peasants as he lay down on the hill to sleep after a large meal of local sheep.

old

Niyonzima, a 40-year old peasant farmer, is about to become the first local tried for crimes against humanity.

The old peasant was demonic in her rage.

An old peasant woman finds the babies, cares for them, and begins searching for the true parents.

There he stands crooked, pushed forwards with the chair legs sticking out behind, like an old peasant woman carrying firewood.

poor

Far from being desperately poor peasants , the squatters were clearly city dwellers.

The poorest peasant , in like case, would suffer no more.

Though officials sometimes mentioned that poor peasants owned cattle, ownership was often concentrated and cattle usually had to be hired.

Similarly, the silk-wearing bourgeoisie of Granada contrasted with the poor , cotton-clad peasants from the mountains nearby.

Here investment, the use of hired labour, the differentiation between richer and poorer peasants , made minimal progress.

The simplicity of the sect attracted thousands of poor peasants .

Especially those of the poor workers and peasants .

Almost all, except the poor peasant occupiers, were indicted as reactionary landlords.

rich

It began with the Agrarian Law of 30 June 1950, which ruthlessly ousted landed proprietors and rich peasants .

Landlords and rich peasants were identified as the enemy and their power broken.

Mixed farming, peasant agriculture, especially that of commercially-minded rich peasants, could flourish in such situations.

Here investment, the use of hired labour, the differentiation between richer and poorer peasants , made minimal progress.

To this extent the region was actually encouraging the formation of richer peasant strata at the expense of the poorer.

Memories obviously lingered of the War Communism strategy of trying to divide richer from poorer peasants .

Many soon found themselves in long-term debt to richer peasants , particularly in the Famine areas.

small

More than half the small peasant farms are squeezed on to just 16 percent of the land.

Legally dispossessed, the big landowners have almost everywhere recovered their advantage over the small peasants .

They were predominantly small peasant economies, with scarcely any industry.

■ NOUN

commune

Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune .

At its centre stood the peasant commune , they believed, had preserved the peasantry from the corruption of private property.

During the 1860s and 70s the populists attributed to the primitive peasant commune all the characteristics of a latent socialist order.

Chicherin stopped writing private memoranda and started a debate on the peasant commune .

community

Among the civilian victims have been members of peasant communities and rural cooperatives who refused to join or support Sendero Luminoso.

It encouraged the incorporation of the peasant community into the wider society, because it operated through the market.

Most of the victims have come from towns and isolated peasant communities in remote rural areas.

economy

The peasant economy provides a reserve of cheap labour for capitalism and so contributes to capital accumulation.

Such critical features of the peasant economy as horse-ownership showed a disastrous drop during the late nineteenth century.

They were predominantly small peasant economies , with scarcely any industry.

The polyptych evidence shows that the peasant economy was well able to sustain these royal demands.

family

The resettlement programme for peasant families lags far behind its targets.

The experience of peasant families was repeated by sending daughters into similar social situations in domestic service and piecework.

Inequalities between patron and client, peasant families and land-owning families and men and women, therefore, continue.

He came from a peasant family and was born near the city of Pyongyang in 1912.

An assignment to cover a strange event in a peasant family changes her life.

farmer

Part is earmarked for transfer to the impoverished peasant farmers living in the areas concerned.

Niyonzima, a 40-year old peasant farmer , is about to become the first local tried for crimes against humanity.

In the strict hierarchy of the Catalan countryside these peasant farmer families almost ranked as a petty nobility.

Last June, a force of state police killed 17 unarmed peasant farmers on their way to a protest rally.

Mrs Villemin is the wife of a peasant farmer .

Growers -- mostly peasant farmers -- planted agave in the late 1980s, then waited seven years for their crop to mature.

This depended on the creation of a large body of enterprising peasant farmers growing essentially cash crops.

I also visited a cooperative of peasant farmers who grow sesame seed.

girl

As he restarted the record, the door of the room opened and a young Annamese peasant girl entered.

But when they first meet, as children, she is a destitute peasant girl called Firecrackers.

I looked like one of those peasant girls in the old folk-tales, the ones who never get to the ball.

She and Sister Colleta are both about four feet eleven and probably they are peasant girls from villages.

The Plot An orphaned peasant girl was given a home by a kindly old woman who could not see very well.

rebellion

Mindful, perhaps, of the events of 1801 and 1825, he feared aristocratic recalcitrance more than a peasant rebellion .

One of those writs last used in peasant rebellions in the 1400s.

His master explanatory variable is market capitalism and his dependent variable is peasant rebellion .

revolt

This was the best-known and recorded peasant revolt in Soviet history, yet its practical achievements were nil.

society

It is in peasant society that one sees some of the main gainers from the surplus of land.

Nor could peasant society be kept unchanged over 250 years.

The most important and uncontrollable factor in this peasant society occurs then in a woman's body.

In a peasant society , these are the significant moments of human life and the main phases and aspects of agriculture.

In some other respects it relied on centuries of evolution of peasant society .

woman

By travelling with him we are reversing the process adopted with our peasant woman in the Smolensk guberniia.

An old peasant woman finds the babies, cares for them, and begins searching for the true parents.

She argues that the diplomatic wife is as much a victim of male-dominated foreign policy as the peasant woman farmer.

Over a period of just months I was witness to the rapid transformation of a group of peasant women into industrial workers.

If you can find a gnarled peasant woman making shabby artefacts from twigs, point your readers in her direction.

If Goethe could live with a peasant woman , then I could marry Sonya.

There he stands crooked, pushed forwards with the chair legs sticking out behind, like an old peasant woman carrying firewood.

■ VERB

lead

Moreover in many areas the assault upon the nobility was led by middle peasants whose family farms were anything but capitalist.

They bypassed the Stalinists and led the peasants and workers to the establishment of a workers state.

Listen: there go the goats, the faint arrhythmia of the bells on their collars, led by the white-clad peasant .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The economic crisis caused famine, epidemics, and peasant revolt.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In response peasants cultivate bulkier but less nutritious crops, such as cassava.

It had no fiefs to be the subject of investiture, no peasant tenure, no peasant serfs.

Lords and peasants shared attitudes and beliefs.

Moreover, in the absence of any evidence of impending upheaval, individual peasants were wary of risking involvement in seditious talk.

Some of the wealthier peasants would probably have held some enclosed freehold fields.

The government asked them, like the peasants, to make superhuman efforts.

Topics will include land problems, development projects, health and education, women's groups, peasant cooperatives and democratic congresses.

Would not Gandhi come to hear their grievances? the peasant asked.

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