peasant

noun

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.

(derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

(strategy games) A worker unit.

adjective

(attributive) Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.

(obsolete, derogatory) Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.

Roots

paguspeasant- · Latin · country district

Synonyms for peasant

churln muzhikn bucolicadj boorn farmern agriculturalistn yokeln agriculturistn farmhandn serfn fellahn husbandmann bumpkinn provincialadj rusticadj countrywomann sharecroppern peonn cultivatorn

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