peasant

Meaning

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. (derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
4. A worker unit.

Adj

1. (attributive, not-comparable) Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
2. (derogatory, not-comparable, obsolete) Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.

Synonyms

farmer

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peasantry

yokel

countryman

rustic

villager

cultivator

agriculturist

churl

husbandman

boor

provincial

agriculturalist

yeoman

bumpkin

barbarian

small farmer

tike

tyke

bucolic

Goth

countrywoman

kern

laborer

labourer

layman

manurer

moujik

muggins

muzhik

cad

pioneer

planter

pleb

ploughman

plower

plowman

builder

servant

sharecropper

simpleton

stock farmer

tenant

workman

yob

country-bred

country bumpkin

countryperson

day laborer

farm worker

Translations

campesino

Bauer

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contadino

paysan

boer

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labrador

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camponês

landman

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αγρότης

camperol

cafone

cultivateur

Landwirt

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plattelander

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɛzənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: paissaunt

In summary

From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“countryside”) + 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.

Sentences

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