Peasant
['pez(ə)nt] or ['pɛznt]
Definition
(noun.) a country person.
(noun.) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
(noun.) one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers.
Edited by Fred--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
(a.) Rustic, rural.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rustic, countryman, hind, swain.
Checker: Sheena
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Countryman, hind, clown, laborer, villager, swain, rustic
ANT:Citizen, cockney, townsman
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Definition
n. a countryman: a rustic: one whose occupation is rural labour.—adj. of or relating to peasants rustic rural: rude.—n. Peas′antry the body of peasants or tillers of the soil: rustics: labourers.—Peasant proprietor a peasant who owns and works his own farm; Peasants' War a popular insurrection in Germany in 1525 stamped out with horrible cruelty.
Typist: Rosanna
Examples
- A vague, very simple Christianity pervaded the illiterate peasant life, mixed with much superstition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are not the thoughts of a model heroine under her circumstances, but they are those of a deeply-feeling, strongly-resentful peasant-girl. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A century later the same urgency was to sweep Germany into a series of bloody Peasant Wars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gerald likes the man ploughing the best, his trousers are torn, he is ploughing with an ox, being I suppose a German peasant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- On some hay on the ground, with a cushion thrown under his head, lay a handsome peasant boy--a boy of not more than seventeen at the most. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You stayed with a peasant and his family. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A peasant would think himself happy in what cannot afford necessaries for a gentleman. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As a peasant girl, she would go ever trim and cleanly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Higg, the son of Snell, answered the peasant. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Peasant girls as they were, they had too much of our own English sensibility to be guilty of the coarse error. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The peasant took the scroll, which contained only a few lines in Hebrew. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But heedless of the peasant's warning, the players moved straightway toward the castle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There may be giants and dwarfs,' the first peasant said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You murderer of peasants. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- One knight--ay, one man-at-arms, were enough for twenty such peasants. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Remember that we are not talking of peasants keeping holiday, but of a State in which every man is expected to do his own work. Plato. The Republic.
- He looked at the double line of peasants and he spat on the ground. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The peasants all called you Don and when you met them they took off their hats. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It is full time, said De Bracy, that the 'outrecuidance' [19] of these peasants should be restrained by some striking example. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They _were_ peasants and workers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His father hunted every day and stopped to eat at the houses of peasants. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Italian peasants believe that this disease can only be cured by a certain kind of music. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At first, this was probably in part a town-slave class, in part it consisted of peasants who had specialized upon a craft. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was no killing, you understand; but sometimes the peasants objected to be robbed, so there was often a fight, ending in broken heads. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He is still remembered in South Italy almost as vividly as is Napoleon I by the peasants of France; he is the Gran Federigo. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The peasants stayed and took the punishment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Randall