'Peasant' definitions:
Definition of 'peasant'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Peasant'
From: GCIDE
- Peasant \Peas"ant\, a. Rustic, rural. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Peasant'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Countryman; rustic; swain; hind. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'peasant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agriculturalist,
- agriculturist,
- agrologist,
- agronomist,
- arriviste,
- Babbitt,
- Bauer,
- 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,
- Philistine,
- 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