roturier

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roturier
Noun
  • Fundamentally, the proletarian forfeits not so much income as individual freedom and the sovereignty of his or her class.
    Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • On the one hand, the proletarian contributes every bit of on-the-clock activity to the value of the resulting commodity.
    Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The commoners come courtesy of a theater troupe full of laborers rehearsing a play to be performed at a royal wedding.
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • It is staged in this quaint Tyrolean hamlet of 8,000 residents, and each year attracts 45,000 paying fans, as well as celebrities and politicians who intermingle with depraved commoners like few places in the winter world.
    Devon O’Neil, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Its practical function: No one, neither courtier nor plebeian, could stand close to the queen, conspicuous in her splendid isolation.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
  • But an unpleasant incident with a public transit plebeian leads Leighton to ponder the direction of her life.
    Rachel Seo, Variety, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • What began in Manchester with an 1819 massacre of peasants gave birth to the world's first workers' movements, trade unions and an idea of equality that has fueled social justice and labor movements around the world.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025
  • French peasants at work, rendered with maximum sentiment by the likes of Jean-François Millet.
    Blake Gopnik, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Roturier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roturier. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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