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peasant
[ pez-uhnt ]
noun
- a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
- a coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person of little financial means.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of peasants or their traditions, way of life, crafts, etc.
- of or designating a style of clothing modeled on the folk costumes of Western cultures, especially women's full-sleeved, round-necked blouses and long, full skirts.
peasant
/ ˈpɛzənt /
noun
- a member of a class of low social status that depends on either cottage industry or agricultural labour as a means of subsistence
- ( as modifier )
peasant dress
- informal.a person who lives in the country; rustic
- informal.an uncouth or uncultured person
peasant
- A farmer or agricultural worker of low status . The word is applied chiefly to agricultural workers in Asia , Europe , and South America , who generally adhere to traditional agricultural practices and have little social mobility or freedom.
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- peasant·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of peasant1
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Example Sentences
He was a large man, totally bald, with the rough hands of a peasant.
After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.
Some “new men” from peasant and artisan backgrounds rose, but many others became part of an impoverished proletariat.
Pretty well by Russian standards—a free peasant was known as a smerd, meaning “stinker.”
Entertaining used to require intelligence or a measure of wit or, at least, peasant cunning.
But the observation he thoughtlessly uttered in French seemed to excite the peasant's attention.
She was the daughter of a peasant of Livonia, married a Swedish dragoon, who was killed on the same day in battle.
In a springtime landscape a young peasant girl is seated beneath a tree, looking before her over a sunlit plain.
The king smiled, and remembering his past pleasures, ordered a thousand crowns to the peasant.
He was the fourth son of a peasant proprietor of Lectourne, a little town on the slopes of the Pyrenees.
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