Word Meanings - FELLAH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc. W. M. Thomson.

Related words: (words related to FELLAH)

• PEASANT
  A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind. (more info) with the p.pr. of verbs), païsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays
• PEASANTLY
  Peasantlike. Milton.
• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• PEASANTLIKE
  Rude; clownish; illiterate.
• THOMSON PROCESS
  A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.
• PEASANTRY
  1. Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. "A bold peasantry." Goldsmith. 2. Rusticity; coarseness. p. Butler.
• AMONG; AMONGST
  among, AS. onmang, ongemang, gemang, in a crowd or mixture. For the 1. Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton. 2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part
• CULTIVATOR
  1. One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature. Whewell. 2. An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with
• THOMSONITE
  A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
• THOMSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. -- n.