Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the class constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture.
- noun A country person; a rustic.
- noun An uncouth, crude, or ill-bred person; a boor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person of inferior rank or condition living in the country or in a rural village, and usually engaged in agricultural labor; a rustic; a countryman.
- Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, peasants; rustic; rural: often used as an epithet of reproach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
- adjective Rustic, rural.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small
farmers andtenants ,sharecroppers ,farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force inagriculture andhorticulture . - noun A
country person. - noun An uncouth,
crude orill-bred person. - noun a
worker unit
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
- noun a country person
- noun a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the tape, only one peasant is shown to possess a machete (scarcely unusual for a mountain peasant), and no guns are seen among them (although at a show-and-tell the next week, four or five weapons were displayed by the Judiciales who claimed that they came from the truck).
Mexico electronico 2000
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In the tape, only one peasant is shown to possess a machete (scarcely unusual for a mountain peasant), and no guns are seen among them (although at a show-and-tell the next week, four or five weapons were displayed by the Judiciales who claimed that they came from the truck).
Mexico electronico 2000
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Those who farm in the US distance themselves from the term peasant, thinking it connotes a tenant, sharecropper, a small farmer or mere farm worker.
Energy Bulletin - 2009
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Those who farm in the US distance themselves from the term peasant, thinking it connotes a tenant, sharecropper, a small farmer or mere farm worker.
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Ugh. If the king hadn't left the sack of gold there, are we to think the peasant is a chump?
No Good Deed 2009
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Ugh. If the king hadn't left the sack of gold there, are we to think the peasant is a chump?
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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A goat to a poor Mexican peasant is their source of livelihood.
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A goat to a poor Mexican peasant is their source of livelihood.
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A goat to a poor Mexican peasant is their source of livelihood.
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A goat to a poor Mexican peasant is their source of livelihood.
chained_bear commented on the word peasant
"Writing of the peasantry of his native village in the Abruzzo, Ignazio Silone ... wrote 'God ... is at the head of everything. He commands everything. Everybody knows that.
Then comes Prince Torlonia, ruler of the earth.
Then come his guards.
Then come his guards' dogs.
Then nothing.
Then more nothing.
Then come the peasants.
That's all."
—quoted in Jerre Mangione and Ben Morreale, La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992), 49
December 2, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word peasant
Interesting notes about the food considered suitable for peasants can be found in comments on sausage and dairy.
November 27, 2017