cottars

variants or cotters
Definition of cottarsnext
plural of cottar

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peasants
Noun
  • Müntzer’s teachings helped provoke the widespread uprising of the German peasants in 1525, and have served as a kind of progenitor inspiration for later communist thinkers, from Friedrich Engels to Ernst Bloch.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This meant people on foot—peasants, in other words.
    Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026
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“Cottars.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cottars. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.

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