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peasantry

noun

Meaning

  1. Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
  2. Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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