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1. (n.) peasant
a member of a class of small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank, as in Europe, Asia, or Latin America.
2. peasant
a coarse, uneducated person.
3. (adj.) peasant
of or characteristic of peasants or their way of life.
4. peasant
modeled on the folk costumes of Western cultures:
peasant blouses.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME paissaunt < AF paisant, OF païsant, earlier païsenc=païs country (< LL pāgēnsis= L pāg(us) country district +-ēnsis -ensis ) + -enc < Gmc)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) peasant, provincial, bucolic
a country person
2. (noun) peasant
one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
3. (noun) peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike
a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
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1. (noun) peasant
a very poor person who works on the land
the harsh life of a peasant
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) peasant
rustic, rural
2. (noun) peasant
a countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries
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Sense: a person who lives and works on the land, especially in a poor, primitive or underdeveloped area
Many peasants died during the drought; (
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 Afrikaans: arm boer |
 Arabic: فَلاّح |
 Bulgarian: селянин |
 Brazilian: camponês |
 Czech: venkovan, -ka |
 German: der Bauer; bäuerlich |
 Danish: bonde; bonde- |
 Greek: χωρικός |
 Spanish: campesino, labrador |
 Estonian: talupoeg |
 Farsi: کشاورز؛ آدم روستایی |
 Finnish: maalainen |
 French: paysan, anne |
 Hebrew: פָלַח |
 Hindi: किसान |
 Croatian: seljak |
 Hungarian: paraszt |
 Indonesian: petani |
 Icelandic: smábóndi, sveitamaður |
 Italian: contadino |
 Japanese: 百姓 |
 Korean: 소작농 |
 Lithuanian: valstietis |
 Latvian: zemnieks |
 Malay: petani |
 Dutch: boer |
 Norwegian: småbruker |
 Polish: chłop, wieśniak |
 Persian: کشاورز؛ آدم روستایی |
 Pashto: كروندګر، ښكاروز، كرونكى، |
 Portuguese: camponês |
 Romanian: ţăran |
 Russian: крестьянин |
 Slovak: roľník, sedliak |
 Slovenian: kmet |
 Serbian: seljak |
 Swedish: bonde, småbrukare |
 Thai: เกษตรกร |
 Turkish: rençber, köylü |
 Taiwanese: 農民 |
 Ukrainian: селянин |
 Urdu: کاشت کار، کسان |
 Vietnamese: nông dân |
 Chinese: 农民 |
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