Definitions for PEASANT
ˈpɛz əntpeas·ant

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. peasant, provincial, bucolicnoun

   a country person

2. peasantnoun

   one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

3. peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tikenoun

   a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. peasantnoun

   A member of the lowly social class which 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.

2. peasantnoun

   A country person.

3. peasantnoun

   An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

4. peasantnoun

   (strategy games) a worker unit

5. Etymology: From Late paissaunt, from paisant, from païsant, from païsan, from païs, from pagensis, from pagus + -enc, of origin, from -inc, -ing "-ing". More at -ing.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PEASANTnoun

   A hind; one whose business is rural labour.

   Etymology: paisant, Fr.

   He holdeth himself a gentleman, and scorneth to work, which, he saith, is the life of a peasant or churl. Edmund Spenser.

   Our superfluous lacqueys and our peasants,
   Who in unnecessary action swarm
   About our squares of battle. William Shakespeare.

   I had rather coin my heart, than wring
   From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash. William Shakespeare.

   ’Tis difficult for us, who are bred up with the same infirmities about us with which we were born, to raise our thoughts and imaginations to those intellectual perfections that attended our nature in the time of innocence, as it is for a peasant bred up in the obscurities of a cottage, to fancy in his mind the unseen splendours of a court. Robert South, Sermons.

   The citizens would bring two thousand men, with which they could make head against twelve thousand peasants. Addison.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Peasant

   A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: slave, serf, and free tenant. Peasants might hold title to land either in fee simple or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.In some contexts, "peasant" has a pejorative meaning, even when referring to farm laborers. As early as in 13th-century Germany, the concept of "peasant" could imply "rustic" as well as "robber", as the English term villain/villein. In 21st-century English, the word "peasant" can mean "an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person". The word rose to renewed popularity in the 1940s–1960s as a collective term, often referring to rural populations of developing countries in general, as the "semantic successor to 'native', incorporating all its condescending and racial overtones".The word peasantry is commonly used in a non-pejorative sense as a collective noun for the rural population in the poor and developing countries of the world. Via Campesina, an organization claiming to represent the rights of about 200 million farm-workers around the world, self-defines as an "International Peasant's Movement" as of 2019. The United Nations and its Human Rights Council prominently uses the term "peasant" in a non-pejorative sense, as in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas adopted in 2018. In general English-language literature, the use of the word "peasant" has steadily declined since about 1970.

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1. peasant

   A peasant is a person who lives in a rural area and works as an agricultural laborer or farmer, often with low socioeconomic status. Historically, this term often refers to the small landowners or farm workers of low social status in pre-industrial societies, typically living in feudal or similar systems and working under subsistence farming conditions. The term can sometimes carry negative connotations related to poverty or simplicity.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Peasantnoun

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

2. Peasantadjective

   rustic, rural

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Peasant

   A peasant is a member of a traditional class of farmers, either laborers or owners of small farms, especially in the Middle Ages under feudalism, or more generally, in any pre-industrial society. In Europe, peasants were divided into three classes according to their personal status: slave, serf, and freeman. Peasants either hold title to land in fee simple, or hold land by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Peasant

   pez′ant, n. a countryman: a rustic: one whose occupation is rural labour.—adj. of or relating to peasants, rustic, rural: rude.—n. Peas′antry, the body of peasants or tillers of the soil: rustics: labourers.—Peasant proprietor, a peasant who owns and works his own farm; Peasants' War, a popular insurrection in Germany, in 1525, stamped out with horrible cruelty. [O. Fr. paisant (Fr. paysan)—pays—L. pagus, a district.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PEASANT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Peasant is ranked #116829 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Peasant surname appeared 149 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Peasant.
   
   98.6% or 147 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Agricultural Laborer
   • Unpleasant Person

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PEASANT' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2396

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'PEASANT' in Nouns Frequency: #1301

Anagrams for PEASANT »

1. anapest

How to pronounce PEASANT?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say PEASANT in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PEASANT in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PEASANT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of PEASANT in a Sentence

1. Hans Konig:

   For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.

2. John Berger:

   A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

3. Gustavo Petro:

   It would be nice if he decided, once we are in power, to sell his Incauca farm to the government so we can give it to peasant farmers.

4. Konstanty Gebert:

   Before World War Two speaking in foreign languages was commonplace. You spoke in a different language with a Hungarian horse trader, a Jewish innkeeper or a Ukrainian peasant, that changed radically after the war.

5. Luigi Barzini:

   They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=PEASANT
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Peasant
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=PEASANT
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/PEASANT
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=PEASANT
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=PEASANT
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html