All 9 Uses
peasant
in
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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- The Jews were helping the nobility, but in doing so, in collecting taxes from the serfs and peasants, for example, they were building up against themselves the hatred of these oppressed classes.†
Chpt 2.6peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- Nothing happened for a long time, because the Cossacks, like the Polish peasants, were afraid of the Polish nobles.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- The Jews became the victims of the Polish peasants, who hated them, and of the Cossacks, who also hated them.†
Chpt 2.6
- He was dressed in the clothes of a peasant, torn boots and coarse garments, and you can imagine how shocked the rabbi was when he saw the betrothal agreement in Israel's hands.†
Chpt 2.6
- His sister should marry a peasant?†
Chpt 2.6
- He was there many years, thinking, meditating, singing his strange songs, listening to the birds, learning from peasant women how to heal sickness with grasses and herbs, to write amulets, to drive out evil spirits.†
Chpt 2.6
- He lay unconscious for half a day near the bodies of his wife and children, and then the Russian peasant who tended the stove in the synagogue and swept its floor found him and carried him to his hut, where he extracted the bullet, bathed the wounds, and tied him to the bed so he would not fall out during the days and nights he shivered and screamed with the fever and delirium that followed.†
Chpt 2.7
- When it was discovered that the rabbi was not dead but was being cared for by the Russian peasant, he was brought into the still-intact home of a Jewish family and nursed back to health.†
Chpt 2.7
- But each of those times the Jews were warned by friendly peasants and were concealed in the woods or in huts.†
Chpt 2.7peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
Definitions:
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(1)
(peasant) used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)