About The Word Peasant

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Peasant

Peasant Meaning & Definition
Peasant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Peasant?

[n] a country person
[n] a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
[n] one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

Synonyms | Synonyms for Peasant: barbarian | boor | bucolic | churl | Goth | provincial | tike | tyke

Related Terms | Find terms related to Peasant: agriculturalist | agriculturist | agrologist | agronomist | arriviste | Babbitt | Bauer | boor | bounder | bourgeois | bucolic | bumpkin | cad | churl | clod | clodhopper | clown | coffee-planter | collective farm worker | country | country bumpkin | countryman | countrywoman | crofter | cropper | cultivator | dirt farmer | dry farmer | epicier | farm laborer | farmer | farmhand | fellah | galoot | gentleman farmer | granger | groundling | grower | guttersnipe | harvester | harvestman | haymaker | hayseed | hick | hind | hooligan | husbandman | ill-bred fellow | kibbutznik | kolkhoznik | kulak | looby | lout | low fellow | lump | mucker | muzhik | nouveau riche | oaf | parvenu | peasant holder | peon | Philistine | picker | planter | plowboy | plowman | provincial | raiser | rancher | ranchman | reaper | ribald | rough | roughneck | rowdy | rube | ruffian | rustic | serf | sharecropper | sower | swain | tea-planter | tenant farmer | tiller | tree farmer | truck farmer | upstart | vulgarian | vulgarist | yeoman | yokel

See Also | agricultural laborer | agricultural labourer | cottar | cotter | disagreeable person | fellah | moujik | mujik | muzhik | muzjik | peasantry | rustic | unpleasant person

Peasant In Webster's Dictionary

\Peas"ant\, n. [OF. pa["i]sant (the i being perh. due to confusion with the p. pr. of verbs), pa["i]san, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays country, fr. L. pagus the country. See {Pagan}.] A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn: Countryman; rustic; swain; hind.
\Peas"ant\, a. Rustic, rural. --Spenser.

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