peasants

Definition of peasants in English English dictionary: plural of peasant
Peasants Revolt: rebellion of farmers in southern Germany as a result of economic hardship (1525)
Peasants' Revolt: a protest in 1381 involving large numbers of English peasants, who were angry about unfair social and economic conditions and about high taxes. They formed an unoffical army, led by Wat Tyler, and marched to London, where they demanded better conditions and took control of the Tower of London. The English king, Richard II, pretended to agree to some of their demands, but after their leaders were killed he changed his mind, so the revolt failed. or Wat Tyler's Rebellion (1381) First great popular rebellion in English history. It was triggered by the poll tax of 1381, which angered labourers and artisans already resentful of the limits on wages fixed by the Statute of Labourers (1351). Centred in southeastern England and East Anglia, the revolt was led by Wat Tyler (d. 1381), who marched into London with a band of Kentish rebels. They captured the Tower of London and beheaded officials responsible for the poll tax. Richard II promised reforms, but Tyler was killed in his presence by the mayor of London. The last of the rebels were subdued in East Anglia two weeks later
Peasants' War: (1524-25) Peasant uprising in Germany. Inspired by reforms brought by the Reformation, peasants in western and southern Germany invoked divine law to demand agrarian rights and freedom from oppression by nobles and landlords. As the uprising spread, some peasant groups organized armies. Although the revolt was supported by Huldrych Zwingli and Thomas Müntzer, its condemnation by Martin Luther contributed to its defeat, principally by the army of the Swabian League. Some 100,000 peasants were killed. Reprisals and increased restrictions discouraged further attempts to improve the peasants' plight
peasant: A member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture
peasant: a worker unit
peasant: An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person
peasant: {n} one who lives by rural labor, a rustic
peasant: a country person
peasant: a small landowner or landless farm worker
peasant: A country person; a rustic
peasant: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
peasant: A peasant is a poor person of low social status who works on the land; used of people who live in countries where farming is still a common way of life. the peasants in the Peruvian highlands. Any member of a class that tills the soil as small landowners or agricultural labourers. The peasant economy generally has a simple technology and a division of labour by age and sex. The basic unit of production is the family or household. Peasant families traditionally consume what they produce, though a portion of their output may be sold in the market or paid to a landlord. Productivity per worker and yields per unit of land are usually low. Peasants as a class tend to disappear as a society industrializes, though peasantlike social structures may persist under new economic regimens. See also ejido; feudalism; hacienda; serfdom
peasant: An uncouth, crude, or ill-bred person; a boor
peasant: A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries
peasant: The lowest rôle of Kithain See Underhill Rôles
peasant: small farmer or farm laborer
peasant: a country person a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
peasant: A member of the class constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture
peasant: Rustic, rural
peasant: a worker unit (Synonyms: peon, serf, villager)
peasant: {i} farmer, agriculturalist; rustic, person who lives in a rural area; hillbilly, ignorant person
peasant: Small-scale agriculturalist living in a state with rent fund obligations
peasant: (noun)-the lowest group on the social ladder
peasant: one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

peasants

Turkish pronunciation

pezınts

Pronunciation

/ˈpezənts/ /ˈpɛzənts/

Etymology

[ 'pe-z&nt ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English paissaunt, from Middle French paisant, from Old French, from païs country, from Late Latin pagensis inhabitant of a district, from Latin pagus district.