fellah

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Noun
  • In those intervening 35 years, China had moved 800 million rural peasants — living in extreme poverty on US$2 a day — into city apartments and integrated them into the global economy.
    Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • More than two million peasant families were given land.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 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
  • This idea is particularly demonstrated through Ramza’s relationship with his best friend, a commoner named Delita.
    Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Now, if the board is made up of more boors than just the one, this may not be a workable solution.
    R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 16 July 2025
  • For their part, the Russians considered the Mizrahim—indeed, most Israelis—loud, uncultured boors.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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“Fellah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fellah. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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