peasantry
/ˈpɛz(ə)ntri
/noun [mass noun] (usually the peasantry)
Smallholders and agricultural labourers of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries): the upper class exploited the peasantry...
- What is your program for the improvement of the lot of the peasantry?
- The zombies' appearance, dressed in ragged brown robes, suggests a link with medieval peasantry.
- Family homes forsaken at gunpoint were promptly occupied by the peasantry, who deny all knowledge of past owners.
