Look up: peasant

1. peasant
   [n] - one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers 2. [n] - a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement 3. [n] - a country person
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2. peasant
   Country-dweller engaged in small-scale farming. A peasant normally owns or rents a small amount of land, working with an aim to be self-sufficient and to sell surplus supplies locally. In the...
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3. Peasant
   Peas'ant noun [ Old French païsant (the i being perhaps due to confusion with the present participle of verbs), païsan , French paysan , from Old French & French pays country, from Latin pagus the country. Se...
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4. Peasant
   Peas'ant adjective Rustic, rural. Spenser.
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5. peasant
   provincial noun a country person
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6. peasant
   churl noun a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
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7. Peasant
   • (a.) Rustic, rural. • (n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
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8. peasant
   any member of a class of persons who till the soil as small landowners or as agricultural labourers. The term peasant originally referred to ... [54 related articles]
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9. peasant
   
   • a country person
   • one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
   • a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
   
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10. peasant
    poor, simple farmer
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11. Peasant
    the ordinary people of Egypt were peasants. This means they owned small plots of land, which they farmed. They were not very rich but their farms usually provided them with a reasonable living in the countryside.
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12. Peasant
    A `peasant` is an agricultural worker who generally works land owned or rented by/from a noble, the peasant was bound to the land and couldn`t move or change their occupation unless they became a yeoman (free person) which generally happened by buying their freedom, the peasant also generally had to...
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