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ry•ot
(rī′ət),USA pronunciation n. (in India)
- British Empirea peasant.
- British Empirea person who holds land as a cultivator of the soil.
- Arabic ra‘īyah subjects, literally, flock
- Persian
- Hindi raiyat
- 1615–25
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