peasant

peas·ant  (pznt)

n.

1. 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.

2. A country person; a rustic.

3. An uncouth, crude, or ill-bred person; a boor.

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[Middle English paissaunt, from Old French paisant, from pais, country, from Late Latin pgnsis, inhabitant of a district, from Latin pgus, district; see pag- in Indo-European roots.]

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peasant

Noun

1. a member of a low social class employed in agricultural labour

2. Informal an uncouth or uncultured person [Old French païsant]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	peasant - a country person bucolic, provincial cottar, cotter - a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik - a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) rustic - an unsophisticated country person
	2.	peasant - one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers peasantry - the class of peasants agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer - a person who tills the soil for a living fellah - an agricultural laborer in Arab countries
	3.	peasant - a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement boor, churl, Goth, tike, tyke, barbarian disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable

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peasant

noun 1. rustic, countryman, hind (obsolete) swain (archaic) son of the soil, churl (archaic)

noun 2. (Informal) boor, provincial, hick (informal), chiefly U.S., Canad. lout, yokel, country bumpkin, hayseed U.S., Canad. (informal) churl

Translations

peasant [ˈpɛznt] n → campesino/a

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peasant [ˈpɛznt] n → paysan(ne)

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peasant [ˈpɛznt] n → Bauer m

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peasant [ˈpɛznt] n → contadino/a