Definitions

peasant

[pez-uhnt] / ˈpɛz ənt /

NOUN

small farmer who rents land

Synonyms

STRONG

agricultural laborer countryman/woman cropper peon planter rustic serf sharecropper villein

WEAK

farmhand hired hand

NOUN

a uneducated, rural person

Synonyms

STRONG

boor bumpkin hayseed hick provincial rube yokel

Example Sentences

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A descriptive summary of their routine lives says much about what China is like today: THE PEASANT.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let him finish, Peasant To which Renee and my mom simultaneously turned to me and burst out, They call you PEASANT?

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

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