Definitions for PEASANTS
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1. peasants

   A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: slave, serf, and free tenant. Peasants might hold title to land either in fee simple or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.In some contexts, "peasant" has a pejorative meaning, even when referring to farm laborers. As early as in 13th-century Germany, the concept of "peasant" could imply "rustic" as well as "robber", as the English term villain/villein. In 21st-century English, the word "peasant" can mean "an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person". The word rose to renewed popularity in the 1940s–1960s as a collective term, often referring to rural populations of developing countries in general, as the "semantic successor to 'native', incorporating all its condescending and racial overtones".The word peasantry is commonly used in a non-pejorative sense as a collective noun for the rural population in the poor and developing countries of the world. Via Campesina, an organization claiming to represent the rights of about 200 million farm-workers around the world, self-defines as an "International Peasant's Movement" as of 2019. The United Nations and its Human Rights Council prominently uses the term "peasant" in a non-pejorative sense, as in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas adopted in 2018. In general English-language literature, the use of the word "peasant" has steadily declined since about 1970.

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1. Peasants

   Peasants is a 1978 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.

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   Rank popularity for the word 'PEASANTS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1836

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PEASANTS in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PEASANTS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of PEASANTS in a Sentence

1. Proverb:

   The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.

2. Michel de Montaigne:

   I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

3. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

   Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

4. Conrad Hughes Hilton:

   I will fucking own anyone on this flight; they are fucking peasants.

5. Forest McDonald:

   Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
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2. ^ Wikidata
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