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peasant
noun as in small farmer who rents land
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He was a large man, totally bald, with the rough hands of a peasant.
After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.
Some “new men” from peasant and artisan backgrounds rose, but many others became part of an impoverished proletariat.
Pretty well by Russian standards—a free peasant was known as a smerd, meaning “stinker.”
Entertaining used to require intelligence or a measure of wit or, at least, peasant cunning.
But the observation he thoughtlessly uttered in French seemed to excite the peasant's attention.
She was the daughter of a peasant of Livonia, married a Swedish dragoon, who was killed on the same day in battle.
In a springtime landscape a young peasant girl is seated beneath a tree, looking before her over a sunlit plain.
The king smiled, and remembering his past pleasures, ordered a thousand crowns to the peasant.
He was the fourth son of a peasant proprietor of Lectourne, a little town on the slopes of the Pyrenees.
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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to peasant, such as: laborer, sharecropper, bumpkin, cropper, farmhand, and hayseed.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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