campesino
5
8.2
- noun
- /kæmˈpeɪsɪnoʊ/
:
campesino
- One way of doing this is to change the campesinos' water practices and introduce new technologies for efficient irrigation.
- campesino organizations
- campesino leaders
- campesino movement
Most of these displaced are campesinos, people from the countryside who had no other skills than growing food for themselves and for us.
- Most of these displaced are campesinos, people from the countryside who had no other skills than growing food for themselves and for us.
Examples
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A campesino works hard to cultivate crops in the sun.
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At the same time, the condition of the campesino has changed profoundly.
Academic text (1996) -
A local campesino will come to you.
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A military patrol forced the campesino family out of their house.
Academic text (2011) -
The campesino couldn't come cause he broke his leg so he sent his son.
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Now it's easy to find campesino leaders in Central America who can speak about macroeconomics, about economic adjustment.
Academic text (1998) -
Most of these displaced are campesinos, people from the countryside who had no other skills than growing food for themselves and for us.
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The Honduran campesino movement, despite its large size and deep historical roots, was severely divided.
Academic text (1998) -
By 1986, she had become one of the campesinos' national spokespersons (Global Exchange, fact sheet on Alvarado).
Fiction book (1994) -
Many participants in the CCC-CA and COCENTRA had links to organizations that represented campesinos outside the cooperative or union sectors.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
898
1.0
A person who grows crops or raises animals on a farm
157
3.5
A person who works on land for a living, usually on a small farm
25
1.1
A person who works on a farm doing jobs like planting or harvesting
9
2.0
A person who owns or works on a small farm to grow food
8
3.0
A person paid to work on a farm doing hard work
5
1.6
A person who works on a farm doing physical tasks like planting and caring for animals
4
3.2
A man who works on a farm for pay
2
6.3
A person who supports or works in farming
1
3.2
A person who works on a farm doing manual tasks like planting and harvesting
1
7.5
A small farmer who grows and gathers food plants
A Cuban woman from the countryside who works on a farm
A person in Italy who works on a small family farm
A poor farmer in Scotland who lives in a small cottage with a small plot of land
Surface Forms
Etymology
Campesino comes from the Spanish word campo 'field', so a campesino is literally someone 'from the fields', a rural farmer or farm worker.