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Definitions for Peasant
[1] 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.
[2] a coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person of little financial means.
[3] of, relating to, or characteristic of peasants or their traditions, way of life, crafts, etc.
[4] 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.
[5] 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
[6] informal a person who lives in the country; rustic
[7] informal an uncouth or uncultured person
Words related to Peasant
laborer, sharecropper, rube, provincial, bumpkin, boor, rustic, hayseed, serf, peon, hick, villein, farmhand, cropper, planter
Words nearby Peasant
peart, pearwood, peary, peary land, peary, robert e., peasant, peasant proprietor, peasantry, peasanty, pease, pease pudding
Origin of Peasant
1375–1425; late Middle English paissaunt < Anglo-French paisant, Old French païsant, earlier païsenc, equivalent to païs country (< Late Latin pāgēnsis, equivalent to Latin pāg(us ) country district + -ēnsis -ensis) + -enc < Germanic (see -ing3)
Other words from Peasant
peas·ant·like , adjective
Word origin for Peasant
C15: from Anglo-French, from Old French païsant, from païs country, from Latin pāgus rural area; see pagan
Synonyms for Peasant
laborer, sharecropper, boor, bumpkin, cropper, farmhand, hayseed, hick, peon, planter, provincial, rube, rustic, serf, villein, countryman/woman, hired hand