Peasant

Quick meaning: Peasant is a noun meaning A country person.

Meaning

A country person.

More Meanings

1. (derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
2. (strategy games) A worker unit.
3. (attributive) Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
4. 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.
5. (obsolete, derogatory) Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.

Example Sentences

peasant class

Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slave am I?

2007, Brad Bird, Ratatouille, spoken by Colette Ratatouille? It's a peasant dish. Are you sure you want to serve this to Ego?

The Ambassador warned him of the consequences if his mission to Moscow were a failure, both to Churchill's position at home and to Russia's prospects in the war. He insisted that he should not allow himself to be offended 'by a peasant who didn't know any better'. Churchill listened in silence, then returned to the dacha leaving Clark Kerr outside.

Word Forms

• peasants

Synonyms for peasant

Depending on context, synonyms include peon, serf, churl, rustic, villager, bogger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include churl, provincial, bucolic, barbarian, goth, tyke.

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