peasant

Significado

Noun

1. 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.
2. A country person.
3. An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
4. A worker unit.

Adj

1. Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
2. (obsolete) Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈpɛzənt/

Etimología

From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“district”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing"; which was an alteration of earlier Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”). Doublet of paisano.

Oraciones

A peasant occupying or working a bovate might be known as a 'bovater.

Un campesino que ocupa o trabaja un bovado podría ser conocido como un 'bovater.