fellah

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Noun
  • Set between the late 1930s and 1954, the movie retells the Algerian War of Independence through the eyes of a peasant farmer, exploring the roots of the movement and depicting the harshness of French colonial rule.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 May 2025
  • Part 2: fifteen years later, while fleeing Petrograd, Nabokov’s father is accosted on a bridge by a gray-bearded peasant, who asks for a light and proves to be Kuropatkin in disguise.
    Elif Batuman, New Yorker, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.
    Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The ruling Liberal Democratic Party contends that opening royal status to commoners is just one step down a path that will ultimately lead to the abandonment of patrilineal legitimacy, ultimately discarding the sacred Y chromosome.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
  • Isotopes in the bones of people buried there show that the city attracted people from far and wide, both commoners and elites.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • For their part, the Russians considered the Mizrahim—indeed, most Israelis—loud, uncultured boors.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Trucco brings a sleazy menace to Rufus, an arrogant boor who underestimates how far Madeline and Roderick will go to usurp him.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2023
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“Fellah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fellah. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.

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