peasant
Betekenis (Engels)
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- 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.
- An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
- A worker unit.
Concepten
Synoniemen
small farmer
stock farmer
yob
country-bred
rural person
country-dweller
common people
farm labourer
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈpɛzənt/
Etymologie (Engels)
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.
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