peasantry

  1. Noun.  (historical) Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
  2. Noun.  An ignorant person of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.