COTTAR Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

cottar

noun

variants or cotter

Definition of cottar

as in peasant

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Recent Examples of cottar In 1846 and 1847, potatoes, the subsistence crop of the cottar subtenants who composed nearly half the population on some Hebridean estates, failed almost entirely. — Hugh Raffles, The New York Review of Books, 9 Oct. 2020

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Noun

The narrative centers on the early careers and shifting dynamic between legendary figures Cao Cao and Yuan Shao as political corruption, peasant rebellions, and personal ambitions push the capital of Luoyang into absolute chaos.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 July 2026
Those immigration conditions led to decades of stateside stereotypes of Italians as poor and violent and their diet ridiculed as peasant grub.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of peasant

Noun

Soon there was an altercation at the front desk, when a Haitian upbraided the American peons about not getting her free stuff fast enough.

— Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 8 Oct. 2025
Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.

— Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024

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