PEASANT

peasant, provincial, bucolic

(noun) a country person

peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike

(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

peasant

(noun) one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

peasant (plural peasants)

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.

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

(strategy games) A worker unit.

Synonyms

• (lowly social class) peon, serf

• churl

• (country person) rustic, villager

• (crude person) boor

Anagrams

• Patanes, Pestana, anapest, patenas

Source: Wiktionary

Peas"ant, n. Etym: [OF. païsant (the i being perh. due to confusion with the p.pr. of verbs), païsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays country, fr. L. pagus the country. See Pagan.]

Definition: A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

Syn.

– Countryman; rustic; swain; hind.

Peas"ant, a.

Definition: Rustic, rural. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition