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peasant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | barbarian, boor, churl, goth, tike, tyke |
| Type of | unpleasant person, disagreeable person |
peasant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | agricultural labourer, agricultural laborer |
| Has types | fellah |
| Derivation | peasanthood |
Examples of peasant
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A lusty Greek peasant shows a British writer how to live and run a lignite mine.
From the post-gazette.com
One photograph has her in white pedal pushers and a blue paisley peasant blouse.
From the washingtonpost.com
In countries long divided between lord and peasant, that has large consequences.
From the economist.com
Land grabs here for the oil rush often involve dispossession of peasant farmers.
From the guardian.co.uk
Alfredo is the son of a rich landowner, while Olmo is a misbegotten peasant son.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The footage of troops burning peasant huts was seen by millions on the CBS News.
From the time.com
Peasant societies can often have very stratified social hierarchies within them.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Giving it up might leave even a victimised peasant feeling a little diminished.
From the guardian.co.uk
Her peasant parents were rather poor and felt she was unworthy of marrying Liu.
From the theepochtimes.com
- A country person
- One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
- A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- (peasantry) the class of peasants
- A peasant is a member of a traditional class of farmers, either laborers or owners of small farms, especially in the Middle Ages under feudalism, or more generally, in any pre-industrial society. In Europe, peasants were divided into three classes according to their personal status: slave, serf, and free tenant...
- A member of the lowly social class which 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; An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person; a worker unit
- (peasantry) Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands; An ignorant person of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics
- (Peasantry) Small farmers who own their "means of production" (small plots of land) but do not derive their living mainly from employing others. ...
- (peasants) people who produce for their own subsistence in preindustrial and industrializing state societies--usually rural, lower class, primary producers such as farmers, artisans, or fishermen. ...
