peasantry

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: peas=ant=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

peasantry, n. 

•  Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.  Goldsmith.  [1913 Webster]
•  Rusticity; coarseness.  p. Butler.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

peasantry

bourgeoisie, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders, ordinary people, plain folks, plain people, proletariat, rank and file, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people