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peasant
/ˈpɛzənt/
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What does peasant mean?
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.
- A worker unit.
More meanings (3)
adjective
- Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
- (derogatory, obsolete) Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.
noun
- (derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɛzənt/
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“I know, those peasant folks have no brains. Ignorance, of course. Don’t you be uneasy. I know what I have to say.”
He then disguised himself in the dirty smock-frock, or blouse, of a peasant, and drove his precious load in safety into Belgium.
More book examples (3)
And this may exhibit itself under the hodden grey of the peasant as well as under the laced coat of the noble.
But in the matter of artistic and profuse decoration of the person the squaw is far behind the peasant woman of Bulgaria.
Do you mean the property of the petty artisan and of the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form?