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metayers

metayers is the plural of metayer.

Meaning of metayer

Noun

metayer (plural metayers)

  1. (French and Italian agriculture) One who cultivates land for a share (usually half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord.
    • The metayer furnishes his labour, his ignorance, and his good appetite; the proprietor supplying an exhausted soil[…]1829, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 4

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Proper noun capitalized: Metayers

Metayers

  1. (plural) plural of Metayer

Questions about metayers

What is metayers the plural of?
Metayers is the plural of metayer.
What part of speech is metayers?
Metayers is a proper noun.

Words near metayers in the dictionary

  1. metaxylenes
  2. metaxylohydroquinone
  3. metaxylohydroquinones
  4. metayage
  5. metayer
  6. metayers
  7. metazachlor
  8. metazellerite
  9. metazeunerite
  10. metazincin
  11. metazincins

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