ryot
Americannoun
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a peasant.
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a person who holds land as a cultivator of the soil.
noun
Etymology
Origin of ryot
1615–25; < Hindi raiyat < Persian < Arabic raʿīyah subjects, literally, flock
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Stuck with the job of making radio interest the ryot is India's Radio Chief Lionel Fielden.
From Time Magazine Archive
A borrowed transmitter and some receiving sets lent by Marconi Co. in 1935 made possible the first experiment in taking radio to the ryot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of lecturing the ryot on the use of fertilizer, Delhi broadcasts a farce in which Dulari, the peasant, becomes a millionaire.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ryot, of course, familiar with each yard of the route, practically followed a straight line.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
Son of the peasant, yeoman farmer, and shopkeeper, ryot, tehsildar, and bunnia.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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