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peas·ant
(pĕz′ənt)n.
1. A member of a class of small farmers and farm laborers, especially in a preindustrial or underdeveloped society.
2. A person who lives in a rural area; a rustic.
3. A person who is considered crude or uncouth; a boor.
[Middle English paissaunt, from Old French paisant, from pais, country, from Late Latin pāgēnsis, inhabitant of a district, from Latin pāgus, district; see pag- in Indo-European roots.]
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peasant
(ˈpɛzənt)n
1. (Sociology)
a. a member of a class of low social status that depends on either cottage industry or agricultural labour as a means of subsistence
b. (as modifier): peasant dress.
2. informal a person who lives in the country; rustic
3. informal an uncouth or uncultured person
[C15: from Anglo-French, from Old French païsant, from païs country, from Latin pāgus rural area; see pagan]
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peas•ant
(ˈpɛz ənt)n.
1. a member of a class of small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank, as in Europe, Asia, or Latin America.
2. a coarse, uneducated person.
adj. 3. of or characteristic of peasants or their way of life.
4. modeled on the folk costumes of Western cultures: peasant blouses.
[1375–1425; late Middle English paissaunt < Anglo-French paisant, Old French païsant, earlier païsenc=païs country (< Late Latin pāgēnsis= Latin pāg(us) country district + -ēnsis -ensis) + -enc < Germanic]
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| Noun | 1. |  peasant - a country person 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 refinementdisagreeable 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) land given to peasants for food production
2. (Informal) boor, provincial, hick (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), lout, yokel, country bumpkin, hayseed (U.S. & Canad. informal), churl Why should I let a lot of peasants traipse over my property?
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Translations
فَلاّح
-kavenkovan
bondebonde-
maalainenmoukkatalonpoika
seljakseljanka
paraszt
smábóndi, sveitamaîur
valstietijavalstietis
zemnieks
roľník
kmet
köylürençber
peasant
[ˈpezənt]A. N → campesino/a m/f (pej) → palurdo/a m/f
a peasant revolt → un levantamiento campesino or del campesinado
a peasant revolt → un levantamiento campesino or del campesinado
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peasant
[ˈpɛzənt] n → paysan(ne) m/fpea soup n (from green peas) → soupe f aux pois; (from split peas) → soupe f aux pois cassésCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
peasant
n (lit) → (armer) Bauer, (arme) Bäuerin; (pej inf) (= ignoramus) → Banause m, → Banausin f; (= lout) → Bauer m; (= pleb) → Prolet(in) m(f)
adj attr → bäuerlich; peasant boy/girl → Bauernjunge m → /-mädchen nt; peasant farmer → (armer) Bauer; peasant labour → Landarbeiterschaft f, → landwirtschaftliche Arbeitskräfte pl; peasant leader → Bauernführer(in) m(f); peasant unrest → Bauernunruhen pl; peasant woman → (arme) Bäuerin; to be from peasant stock → von bäuerlicher Herkunft sein
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peasant
[ˈpɛz/ənt]1. n → contadino/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
peasant
(ˈpeznt) noun a person who lives and works on the land, especially in a poor, primitive or underdeveloped area. Many peasants died during the drought; (also adjective) a peasant farmer.
ˈpeasantry noun peasants as a group; the peasants of a particular place. What part did the peasantry play in the Russian revolution?
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