Peasant

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  • noun. A member of the class constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture.
  • noun. A country person; a rustic.
  • noun. An uncouth, crude, or ill-bred person; a boor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A person of inferior rank or condition living in the country or in a rural village, and usually engaged in agricultural labor; a rustic; a countryman.
  • Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, peasants; rustic; rural: often used as an epithet of reproach.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
  • adjective. Rustic, rural.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A country person.
  • noun. An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
  • noun. a worker unit
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
  • noun. a country person
  • noun. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
  • Word Usage
    "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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