Peasant

Noun

 * 1) A member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
 * 2) A country person.
 * 3) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
 * 4) (strategy games) a worker unit

Synonyms

 * (lowly social class) peon, serf
 * churl
 * (country person) rustic, villager
 * (cruse person) boor

Derived terms

 * peasantry

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From Late paissaunt: from  paisant: from  païsant: from  païsan: from païs: from  pagensis: from  pagus: + 🇫🇴 -enc "member of", of  origin, from  -inc, -ing "-ing". More at -ing.

Translations

 * Armenian: գյուղացի
 * Belarusian: селянін
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 農民, 农民
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Bauer, Bäuerin
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Japanese: 小作人, 農民
 * Macedonian: селанец, селанка
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: крестьянин, крестьянка
 * Serbo-Croatian: seljak, kmet
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: селянин
 * Volapük: feilan,  hifeilan,  jifeilan


 * Armenian: գյուղացի,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 農民, 农民
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch: boer, plattelander , landman
 * Finnish:


 * French:, , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: селанец, селанка
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: крестьянин, селянин


 * Dutch: boer, boerenpummmel
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Russian: деревенщина, мужлан, мужик


 * Finnish:


 * Russian: крестьянин


 * : terlaboristo
 * : Bauer, Landarbeiter , Landmann
 * : αγρότης (agrótis)
 * : cafone, contadino
 * : cafone, contadino


 * : 소농 (sonong)
 * : camponês
 * : tuathanach
 * : campesino, montañero , peón

Anagrams

 * anapest