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
- He is a peasant by pedigree.
- The population consisted of peasants.
- The angry peasants burned the castle.
- He was also known as the scourge of the peasants.
- But still the peasants get relatively poor recompense.
- He was a peasant and the Bolsheviks disdained peasants.
- None of the Danes realize the identity of the apparent peasant.
- The goal of the party was to unite the workers and the peasants.
- The labour input is the offering of the peasant in their role as priests.
- As for the peasant situation, the return to serfdom is mentioned in the lead.
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