peasant
11peasant — Used as a term of abuse to a person, usually a man, to imply that he is without education or manners. The term is certainly not obsolete, as the Oxford English Dictionary states, though it is less used now than in earlier times. The… …
12peasant — noun (C) 1 someone in a poor country or in former times, who does farm work on the piece of land where they live: He was born into a peasant family during the 1930s. 2 informal someone who does not have good manners or much education: Don t be… …
13peasant — noun Peasant is used before these nouns: ↑agriculture, ↑blouse, ↑class, ↑farmer, ↑origin, ↑rebellion, ↑resistance, ↑revolt, ↑rising, ↑unrest, ↑uprising …
14peasant — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, Bauer, Philistine, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, arriviste, boor, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumpkin, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, clown, coffee planter, collective farm worker,… …
15peasant — peas|ant [ˈpezənt] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: paisant, from païs country , from Latin pagus; PAGAN2] 1.) a poor farmer who owns or rents a small amount of land, either in past times or in poor countries ▪ Most villagers are peasant …
16peasant — peas|ant [ pezənt ] noun count * 1. ) someone who works on another person s farm or on their own small farm. This word is used mainly about people in poor countries or people in history: The majority of the population are landless peasants. a… …
17peasant — [[t]pe̱z(ə)nt[/t]] peasants N COUNT: oft supp N, N n A peasant is a poor person of low social status who works on the land; used of people who live in countries where farming is still a common way of life. ...the peasants in the Peruvian… …
18peasant — peas•ant [[t]ˈpɛz ənt[/t]] 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 3) of or characteristic of peasants or their way of life 4) clo modeled …
19Peasant revolt — Peasant, Peasants or Popular is variously paired with Revolt, Uprising and War and may refer to (sorted chronologically): *Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising 209BC *Yellow Turban Rebellion 184 *Bagaudae in third to fifth century Gaul and Hispania… …
20Peasant foods — (or poor people s food) are those dishes specific to a particular culture made from accessible and inexpensive ingredients and usually prepared and spiced to make them more palatable. They have often formed a significant part of the diets of poor …
