peasant proprietor

[ pez-uhnt pruh-prahy-i-ter ]

noun
  1. a peasant who owns land, especially the land they till.

Origin of peasant proprietor

1
First recorded in 1785–95

Other words from peasant proprietor

  • peas·ant pro·pri·e·tor·ship, noun

Words Nearby peasant proprietor

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How to use peasant proprietor in a sentence

  • He was the fourth son of a peasant proprietor of Lectourne, a little town on the slopes of the Pyrenees.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • His father came of the peasant proprietor class, and only after forty years of service attained the rank of a noble.

    A Sportsman's Sketches | Ivan Turgenev
  • This is a very high return for a small outlay; but it is completely beyond the means of any peasant proprietor.

  • This narrows down the peasant-proprietor theory vastly in its practical application; it remains hardly a national question.

  • Too frequently the peasant proprietor, if he is not very provident, runs short of money after one or two bad seasons.

    Political economy | W. Stanley Jevons