peasant
peas·ant
An elderly peasant woman.
- 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.
The definition of a peasant is a country person, a farmer or a crude person.
peasant
- 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 of peasant
Late Middle English paissaunt from Anglo-French paisant from Middle French païsent from Old French from païs, country from Late Latin pagensis, belonging to the district from pagus, district: see paganpeasant
noun
- A member of a class of small farmers and farm laborers, especially in a preindustrial or underdeveloped society.
- A person who lives in a rural area; a rustic.
- A person who is considered crude or uncouth; a boor.
Origin of peasant
Middle English paissaunt from Old French paisant from pais country from Late Latin pāgēnsis inhabitant of a district from Latin pāgus district ; see pag- in Indo-European roots.peasant
Noun
(plural peasants)
- 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.
- A country person.
- An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
- (strategy games) a worker unit
Origin
From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Middle French païsant (“païsant"), from Old French païsan (“countryman, peasant"), from païs (“country"), from Late Latin pÄgÄ“nsis (“inhabitant of a district"), from Latin pÄgus (“district") + Old French -enc (“member of"), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing". More at -ing.
