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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
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