EGAVE

peasant

About 13.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A member of the lowly social class that 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. noun A country person.
  3. noun An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
  4. noun A worker unit.
  5. adjective Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
    peasant class
  6. adjective Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.

Similar words

churl provincial bucolic boor barbarian goth tyke tike peasantry villager

Often followed by

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Word family

peasants

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