Peasant \Peas"ant\, n. [OF. pa["i]sant (the i being perh. due to
confusion with the p. pr. of verbs), pa["i]san, F. paysan,
fr. OF. & F. pays country, fr. L. pagus the country. See
Pagan.]
A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class
of tillers of the soil in European countries.
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Syn: Countryman; rustic; swain; hind.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Peasant \Peas"ant\, a.
Rustic, rural. --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
peasant
n 1: a country person [syn: provincial, bucolic]
2: one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
3: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or
refinement [syn: barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke,
tike]
WordNet (r) 2.0
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "peasant":
Babbitt, Bauer, Philistine, agriculturalist, agriculturist,
agrologist, agronomist, arriviste, boor, bounder, bourgeois,
bucolic, bumpkin, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, clown,
coffee-planter, collective farm worker, country, country bumpkin,
countryman, countrywoman, crofter, cropper, cultivator,
dirt farmer, dry farmer, epicier, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand,
fellah, galoot, gentleman farmer, granger, groundling, grower,
guttersnipe, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, hayseed, hick, hind,
hooligan, husbandman, ill-bred fellow, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik,
kulak, looby, lout, low fellow, lump, mucker, muzhik,
nouveau riche, oaf, parvenu, peasant holder, peon, picker, planter,
plowboy, plowman, provincial, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper,
ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, serf,
sharecropper, sower, swain, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller,
tree farmer, truck farmer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yeoman,
yokel
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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