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

The farmer mind fails to perceive how any Act of Parliament can prevent an owner or peasant proprietor from selling his entire interest in his holding.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.

At the head of the schedule they placed some man of local popularity, usually a peasant proprietor, whose name was not repeated in many, if any, other schedules.

From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by Humphreys, John H.

Her husband, it seems, had been a well-to-do peasant proprietor, but they had spent every bit of money upon their son's education.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

A peasant proprietor expressed the conviction that goodness in a family was "not the result of its own efforts but of the accumulation of ancestral effort."

From The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by Scott, J.W. Robertson

She made a bargain, less extravagant than I expected, with the peasant proprietor, promising, however, a very handsome pourboire to his son in the event of our good fortune.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various