peasant
IPA: pˈɛzʌnt
noun
- A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
- A country person.
- (derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
- (strategy games) A worker unit.
adjective
- (attributive) Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
- (obsolete, derogatory) Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.
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Examples of "peasant" in Sentences
- A goat to a poor Mexican peasant is their source of livelihood.
- Ugh. If the king hadn't left the sack of gold there, are we to think the peasant is a chump?
- Those who farm in the US distance themselves from the term peasant, thinking it connotes a tenant, sharecropper, a small farmer or mere farm worker.
- In the tape, only one peasant is shown to possess a machete (scarcely unusual for a mountain peasant), and no guns are seen among them (although at a show-and-tell the next week, four or five weapons were displayed by the Judiciales who claimed that they came from the truck).
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