peasant
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈpɛzənt/
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campesino
- The festival celebrated the hard work and resilience of the local peasants who feed the community.
- peasant revolt
- peasant rebellion
- peasant movement
The themes look like soldiers who are peasants.
- The themes look like soldiers who are peasants.
- You're you're, you're taking over the the fields of the poor peasants.
- Like, you have a king and then you have a million peasants.
- Then Vietnam War happens and I see the televised slaughter of millions of Vietnamese peasants.
- So, and so there, there too, there's an important idea of property rights and the, and the desire of Ukrainian peasants to have to have property.
- It's always the lower classes, the peasants, right in that time that this history stretches back far.
Examples
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In the village, many peasants struggled to make a living from the small plots of land they farmed.
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Remember that field where the peasant huts were?
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I'm just some simple peasant who wants it for the hard times.
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I'm sick of living like a peasant.
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In many peasant families, there were no male youths left.
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Cash wages are lowered since they need not sustain the individual peasant family throughout the year.
Academic text (1990) -
And in Ukraine, the peasants yet again refused to rally to the White cause.
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When, in 1936-39, the national movement called upon peasants to fight for the nation, they performed admirably.
Academic text (1990) -
It was all about fairness, equality, justice for workers and and peasants at the at the time.
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The peasant worked tirelessly in the fields to grow enough food for his family.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who grows crops or raises animals on a 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
5
8.2
A person who works as a farmer in rural areas, especially in Latin America
3
3.7
A farmer who rents land from a landowner instead of owning it
1
5.8
A person who farms a small piece of land, often with family help
1
7.5
A small farmer who grows and gathers food plants
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3.2
A person who works on a farm doing manual tasks like planting and harvesting
A person in Italy who works on a small family farm
A farmer who rents land, especially in India under British rule
A poor farmer in Scotland who lives in a small cottage with a small plot of land
A poor farm worker who lives in a small cottage and works the land
A farm worker who lives on a large farm and cares for animals and crops
A person who lives and works on the land, like a farmer
A country person thought to be simple and not educated
Antonyms
Compounds
How Wealthy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Peasant comes from an old French word paisant, meaning someone from the 'country', and from Latin pagus meaning 'country district'. So a peasant was originally a person who lived in the country and worked the land, which is why we now use it for a small farmer or farm worker.