Definition of peasant in English:

peasant

noun ˈpɛz(ə)ntˈpɛz(ə)nt

1A poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries)
as modifier peasant farmers
Example sentencesExamples
- The peasants and poor suffered an unbearable reduction in their standard of living during the war.
- You know a lot of farmers and peasants cannot use a sword, but most of them are familiar with crossbows.
- He has directed policies that have resulted in the driving of millions of poor peasants from their land.
- It was no longer divided between the small élite of landowners and a mass of peasants and the poor.
- As a result, poor peasants might find themselves paying their dues to a wealthy peasant, and never see the lord at all.
- Lula has also raised calls for radical land reform to assist peasants and the rural poor.
- It was also true that the country was still poor and that the life of a peasant was hard.
- The victims were from a group of poor peasants who had occupied a 49-acre plot of land.
- In the countryside peasants began organising to seize land and to withhold rent.
- When the workers, urban poor and peasants want things from such a bourgeoisie they have to fight for them.
- They were short of land, monopolized as it was by capitalist farmers and aged peasants.
- Labour tenants, intent on salvaging some of their status as peasants, were often reluctant workers.
- The black majority were reduced to impoverished peasants and landless labourers.
- The peasants have become poorer and the working class has been exploited to the point where the worker is almost a slave.
- A tan face signifies the status of a lowly peasant who has worked in the fields all her life.
- Some poorer peasants sold their land as soon as their ownership was confirmed, and then went to the towns in search of work.
- They set out the next day and at evening approached a small hut from which a poor peasant emerged.
- The chickpea was certainly used by the Romans, but regarded as a food for peasants and poor people.
- Poor peasants can be easily persuaded to plant the crop - either by fists full of dollars or guns to the temple.
- Noble, bourgeois, and peasant alike associated status with exemption from public demands.
Synonyms
agricultural worker, small farmer, rustic, son of the soil, countryman, countrywoman, farmhand, swain, villein, serf
French paysan
Russian muzhik, kulak
Spanish campesino, paisano
Italian contadino
Egyptian fellah
Indian ryot
archaic carl, cottier, kern, hind
1. 1.1informal An ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person.
  ‘That is a civilized drink, you peasant’
  Synonyms
  lout, boor, oaf, clown, churl, yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, village idiot, provincial, barbarian
  Irish culchie, bosthoon, bogman
  informal clod, clodhopper, yahoo
  North American informal hayseed, hick, rube, hillbilly
  Australian informal ocker
  Australian/New Zealand informal hoon
  Australian informal, derogatory bevan, booner
  rare bucolic

Derivatives

peasanty

adjective

It is robust, peasanty and rustic with all the feel-good, comfort qualities of home-made food, but more interesting and commendably professional than your own, all too familiar efforts.
Example sentencesExamples
- Jerin's pants were loose, almost peasanty, I thought, and his boots were just below his knees.
- A starter of bucatini (a slightly hollow spaghetti) with squid was altogether more peasanty.
- For a quick cheat, I think this recipe has a fairly peasanty feel to it.
- Wares makes his excellent puff pastry into a flat, peasanty square topped with melting onions and thyme.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French paisent 'country dweller', from pais 'country', based on Latin pagus 'country district'.

pagan from Late Middle English:
In Latin paganus originally meant ‘of the country, rustic’, and also ‘civilian, non-military’. Around the 4th century ad, it developed the sense ‘non-Christian, heathen’. One theory is that belief in the ancient gods lingered on in the rural villages after Christianity had been generally accepted in the towns and cities of the Roman Empire; another focuses on the ‘civilian’ sense, and points out that early Christians called themselves ‘soldiers of Christ’, making non-Christians into ‘civilians’. A third view compares heathens to people outside the civilized world of towns and cities, belonging to the countryside. Curiously, it was not uncommon to find Pagan as a given name, a custom that has recently been revived. The Latin root paganus came from pagus ‘country district’, which is also the source of peasant. Heathen is similar in meaning and development, coming from a word meaning ‘inhabiting open country’ which is related to heath. Both these words are Germanic and were already in use in Old English.

Rhymes

bezant, omnipresent, pheasant, pleasant, present

Definition of peasant in US English:

peasant

nounˈpez(ə)ntˈpɛz(ə)nt

1A poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries)
as modifier peasant farmers
Example sentencesExamples
- Lula has also raised calls for radical land reform to assist peasants and the rural poor.
- As a result, poor peasants might find themselves paying their dues to a wealthy peasant, and never see the lord at all.
- A tan face signifies the status of a lowly peasant who has worked in the fields all her life.
- Poor peasants can be easily persuaded to plant the crop - either by fists full of dollars or guns to the temple.
- When the workers, urban poor and peasants want things from such a bourgeoisie they have to fight for them.
- They were short of land, monopolized as it was by capitalist farmers and aged peasants.
- In the countryside peasants began organising to seize land and to withhold rent.
- The chickpea was certainly used by the Romans, but regarded as a food for peasants and poor people.
- He has directed policies that have resulted in the driving of millions of poor peasants from their land.
- Some poorer peasants sold their land as soon as their ownership was confirmed, and then went to the towns in search of work.
- The peasants and poor suffered an unbearable reduction in their standard of living during the war.
- The victims were from a group of poor peasants who had occupied a 49-acre plot of land.
- It was also true that the country was still poor and that the life of a peasant was hard.
- The peasants have become poorer and the working class has been exploited to the point where the worker is almost a slave.
- Noble, bourgeois, and peasant alike associated status with exemption from public demands.
- The black majority were reduced to impoverished peasants and landless labourers.
- It was no longer divided between the small élite of landowners and a mass of peasants and the poor.
- They set out the next day and at evening approached a small hut from which a poor peasant emerged.
- You know a lot of farmers and peasants cannot use a sword, but most of them are familiar with crossbows.
- Labour tenants, intent on salvaging some of their status as peasants, were often reluctant workers.
Synonyms
agricultural worker, small farmer, rustic, son of the soil, countryman, countrywoman, farmhand, swain, villein, serf
1. 1.1informal An ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person; a person of low social status.
  “That is a civilized drink, you peasant”
  Synonyms
  lout, boor, oaf, clown, churl, yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, village idiot, provincial, barbarian

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French paisent ‘country dweller’, from pais ‘country’, based on Latin pagus ‘country district’.

单词	peasant
释义	Definition of peasant in English: peasant noun ˈpɛz(ə)ntˈpɛz(ə)nt 1A poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries) as modifier peasant farmers Example sentencesExamples The peasants and poor suffered an unbearable reduction in their standard of living during the war. You know a lot of farmers and peasants cannot use a sword, but most of them are familiar with crossbows. He has directed policies that have resulted in the driving of millions of poor peasants from their land. It was no longer divided between the small élite of landowners and a mass of peasants and the poor. As a result, poor peasants might find themselves paying their dues to a wealthy peasant, and never see the lord at all. Lula has also raised calls for radical land reform to assist peasants and the rural poor. It was also true that the country was still poor and that the life of a peasant was hard. The victims were from a group of poor peasants who had occupied a 49-acre plot of land. In the countryside peasants began organising to seize land and to withhold rent. When the workers, urban poor and peasants want things from such a bourgeoisie they have to fight for them. They were short of land, monopolized as it was by capitalist farmers and aged peasants. Labour tenants, intent on salvaging some of their status as peasants, were often reluctant workers. The black majority were reduced to impoverished peasants and landless labourers. The peasants have become poorer and the working class has been exploited to the point where the worker is almost a slave. A tan face signifies the status of a lowly peasant who has worked in the fields all her life. Some poorer peasants sold their land as soon as their ownership was confirmed, and then went to the towns in search of work. They set out the next day and at evening approached a small hut from which a poor peasant emerged. The chickpea was certainly used by the Romans, but regarded as a food for peasants and poor people. Poor peasants can be easily persuaded to plant the crop - either by fists full of dollars or guns to the temple. Noble, bourgeois, and peasant alike associated status with exemption from public demands. Synonyms agricultural worker, small farmer, rustic, son of the soil, countryman, countrywoman, farmhand, swain, villein, serf French paysan Russian muzhik, kulak Spanish campesino, paisano Italian contadino Egyptian fellah Indian ryot archaic carl, cottier, kern, hind 1.1informal An ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person. ‘That is a civilized drink, you peasant’ Synonyms lout, boor, oaf, clown, churl, yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, village idiot, provincial, barbarian Irish culchie, bosthoon, bogman informal clod, clodhopper, yahoo North American informal hayseed, hick, rube, hillbilly Australian informal ocker Australian/New Zealand informal hoon Australian informal, derogatory bevan, booner rare bucolic Derivatives peasanty adjective It is robust, peasanty and rustic with all the feel-good, comfort qualities of home-made food, but more interesting and commendably professional than your own, all too familiar efforts. Example sentencesExamples Jerin's pants were loose, almost peasanty, I thought, and his boots were just below his knees. A starter of bucatini (a slightly hollow spaghetti) with squid was altogether more peasanty. For a quick cheat, I think this recipe has a fairly peasanty feel to it. Wares makes his excellent puff pastry into a flat, peasanty square topped with melting onions and thyme. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French paisent 'country dweller', from pais 'country', based on Latin pagus 'country district'. pagan from Late Middle English: In Latin paganus originally meant ‘of the country, rustic’, and also ‘civilian, non-military’. Around the 4th century ad, it developed the sense ‘non-Christian, heathen’. One theory is that belief in the ancient gods lingered on in the rural villages after Christianity had been generally accepted in the towns and cities of the Roman Empire; another focuses on the ‘civilian’ sense, and points out that early Christians called themselves ‘soldiers of Christ’, making non-Christians into ‘civilians’. A third view compares heathens to people outside the civilized world of towns and cities, belonging to the countryside. Curiously, it was not uncommon to find Pagan as a given name, a custom that has recently been revived. The Latin root paganus came from pagus ‘country district’, which is also the source of peasant. Heathen is similar in meaning and development, coming from a word meaning ‘inhabiting open country’ which is related to heath. Both these words are Germanic and were already in use in Old English. Rhymes bezant, omnipresent, pheasant, pleasant, present Definition of peasant in US English: peasant nounˈpez(ə)ntˈpɛz(ə)nt 1A poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries) as modifier peasant farmers Example sentencesExamples Lula has also raised calls for radical land reform to assist peasants and the rural poor. As a result, poor peasants might find themselves paying their dues to a wealthy peasant, and never see the lord at all. A tan face signifies the status of a lowly peasant who has worked in the fields all her life. Poor peasants can be easily persuaded to plant the crop - either by fists full of dollars or guns to the temple. When the workers, urban poor and peasants want things from such a bourgeoisie they have to fight for them. They were short of land, monopolized as it was by capitalist farmers and aged peasants. In the countryside peasants began organising to seize land and to withhold rent. The chickpea was certainly used by the Romans, but regarded as a food for peasants and poor people. He has directed policies that have resulted in the driving of millions of poor peasants from their land. Some poorer peasants sold their land as soon as their ownership was confirmed, and then went to the towns in search of work. The peasants and poor suffered an unbearable reduction in their standard of living during the war. The victims were from a group of poor peasants who had occupied a 49-acre plot of land. It was also true that the country was still poor and that the life of a peasant was hard. The peasants have become poorer and the working class has been exploited to the point where the worker is almost a slave. Noble, bourgeois, and peasant alike associated status with exemption from public demands. The black majority were reduced to impoverished peasants and landless labourers. It was no longer divided between the small élite of landowners and a mass of peasants and the poor. They set out the next day and at evening approached a small hut from which a poor peasant emerged. You know a lot of farmers and peasants cannot use a sword, but most of them are familiar with crossbows. Labour tenants, intent on salvaging some of their status as peasants, were often reluctant workers. Synonyms agricultural worker, small farmer, rustic, son of the soil, countryman, countrywoman, farmhand, swain, villein, serf 1.1informal An ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person; a person of low social status. “That is a civilized drink, you peasant” Synonyms lout, boor, oaf, clown, churl, yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, village idiot, provincial, barbarian Origin Late Middle English: from Old French paisent ‘country dweller’, from pais ‘country’, based on Latin pagus ‘country district’.
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