ryot
Americannoun
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a peasant.
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a person who holds land as a cultivator of the soil.
noun
Etymology
Origin of ryot
1615–25; < Hindi raiyat < Persian < Arabic raʿīyah subjects, literally, flock
Example Sentences
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Stuck with the job of making radio interest the ryot is India's Radio Chief Lionel Fielden.
From Time Magazine Archive
A borrowed transmitter and some receiving sets lent by Marconi Co. in 1935 made possible the first experiment in taking radio to the ryot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of lecturing the ryot on the use of fertilizer, Delhi broadcasts a farce in which Dulari, the peasant, becomes a millionaire.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a Japanese ryot has done everything to his field that he can possibly think of, he weeds the barley stalk by stalk with his finger and thumb.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
India needs much foreign salt, and the Indian ryot needs it cheap: for the salt he uses has to bear the burden of a tax.
From Are we Ruined by the Germans? by Cox, Harold
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