peasant proprietor

American  

[pez-uhnt pruh-prahy-i-ter] / ˈpɛz ənt prəˈpraɪ ɪ tər /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• peasant proprietorship
  noun

Etymology

Origin of peasant proprietor

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

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peasant proprietor

In the same way that the peasant proprietor and the rich burgher look down However, in the end, all this had a very good effect upon me.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various

But to solve the problem of rural Ireland—which, as I have said, is the Irish problem—more is required than the conversion of the occupying tenant into a peasant proprietor.

From Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union by Rosenbaum, S.

His father was a respectable peasant proprietor, described by Herr Goebel as Anspanner.

From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel

Such measures would merely have revived the free labourer, while their dream was to re-establish the peasant proprietor, or at least the occupant who held his land on a perfectly secure tenure from the State.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

This is a very high return for a small outlay; but it is completely beyond the means of any peasant proprietor.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various