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The definition of a peasant is a country person, a farmer or a crude person.
(noun)- An example of a peasant is a person who grows vegetables for a living.
- An example of a peasant is someone who constantly uses foul language.
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See peasant in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- any person of the class of small farmers or of farm laborers, as in Europe or Asia
- a person regarded as coarse, boorish, ignorant, etc.
Origin: LME paissaunt < Anglo-Fr paisant < MFr païsent < OFr < païs, country < LL pagensis, belonging to the district < pagus, district: see pagan
See peasant in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A member of the class constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture.
- A country person; a rustic.
- An uncouth, crude, or ill-bred person; a boor.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English paissaunt
Origin: , from Old French paisant
Origin: , from pais, country
Origin: , from Late Latin pāgēnsis, inhabitant of a district
Origin: , from Latin pāgus, district; see pag- in Indo-European roots
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