paysan

Meaning

  1. a peasant
  2. someone who lives in the country; ruralite
  3. a country bumpkin

Concepts

peasant

farmer

countryman

yokel

rustic

agrarian

churl

rural

bucolic

provincial

Fannie Farmer

Fannie Merritt Farmer

Farmer

tiller

villain

plowman

rancher

carle

agronomist

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
pay‧san
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɛ.i.zɑ̃/
Etymology

Inherited from Old French païsan. By surface analysis, pays + -an. Related to païen.

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