Peasant - definition of peasant by The Free Dictionary /peasant
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(pĕz′ənt)n.1.
A member of a class of small farmers and farm laborers, especially in a preindustrial or underdeveloped society.2.
A person who l a rustic.3.
A person who is conside a boor.[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 the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]peasant ('p?z?nt) n1.
(Sociology) a. a member of a class of low social status that depends on either cottage industry or agricultural labour as a means of subsistenceb. (as modifier): peasant dress. 2. informal a person who
rustic3. informal an uncouth or uncultured person[C15: from Anglo-French, from Old French pa?sant, from pa?s country, from Latin pāgus see pagan]peas•ant
(ˈpɛz ənt)
a member of a class of small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank, as in Europe, Asia, or Latin America.
a coarse, uneducated person.
of or characteristic of peasants or their way of life.
modeled on the folk costumes of Western cultures:
peasant blouses.
[;1425; late Middle English paissaunt & Anglo-French paisant, Old French pa?sant, earlier pa?senc=pa?s country (& Late Latin pāgēnsis= Latin pāg(us) country district + -ēnsis ) + -enc & Germanic]
Switch to Noun1.peasant - a country person & & &, ,
- a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands, , ,
- a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) - an unsophisticated country person2.peasant - one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers - the class of peasants,
- a person who tills the soil for a living - an agricultural laborer in Arab countries3.peasant - a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement, , , , , ,
- a person who is not pleasant or agreeablepeasantnoun1. , ,
(obsolete),
(archaic), son of the soil,
(archaic) land given to peasants for food production2. (Informal) , ,
(informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), , , ,
(U.S. & Canad. informal),
Why should I let a lot of peasants traipse over my property?
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B. CPD peasant farmer N →
mpeasant woman N →
fpeasant [ˈpɛzənt] n → (ne) m/fpea soup n (from green peas) →
f aux ; (from split peas) →
peasant n (lit) → (armer) , (arme) ; (pej inf) (= ignoramus) →
m, →
f; (= lout) →
m; (= pleb) → (in) m(f) adj attr → ; peasant boy/girl →
m → /-m?dchen nt; peasant farmer → (armer) ; peasant labour → Landarbeiterschaft f, →
pl; peasant leader → Bauernführer(in) m(f); peasant unrest → Bauernunruhen pl; peasant woman → (arme) ; to be from peasant stock → von
Herkunft seinpeasant [ˈpɛz/ənt]1. n → contadino/a2. adj (life) → dei ; (societies) → contadino/a; (dress) → da /peasant ('peznt)
noun a person who lives and works on the land, especially in a poor, primitive or underdeveloped area. Many peasants die (also adjective) a peasant farmer. arm boer
селянин
venkovan, -ka
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maalainen , anne
smábóndi, sveitama?ur
valstietis
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ro?ník, sedliak
bonde, sm?brukare
селянин
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n?ng d?n 'peasantry noun the peasants of a particular place. What part did the peasantry play in the Russian revolution? boerestand
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селячество
campesinato
die Bauernschaft
αγροτι?, χωρικο?
talurahvas
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selja?tvo, seljaci
parasztság
golongan petani
smábaendastétt
valstietija
zemniecība
plattelandsbevolking
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campesinato
??-r?--nime
ro?níctvo
kmetje, kmetstvo
allmoge, sm?b?nder
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k?ylü s?n?f?, k?ylüler
(總稱)農民
селянство
giai c?p n?ng d?n
（总称）农民
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One sees that draught-horse neck among the peasant women in all old countries. They chatted incessantly: about th their amusing adventure out in the water-it had again assumed its about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the C about the children playing croquet under the oaks, and the Farival twins, who were now performing the overture to "The Poet and the Peasant. Still, they were peasant people, and they hung on to the it was quite in vain that the agent hinted at promptness-- they would see, they would see, they told him, they could not decide until they had had more time. My idea was to disguise myself as a freeman of peasant degree and wander through the country a week or two on foot. Toward the middle of April we sailed in the HOLSATIA, Captain Brandt, and had a very peasant trip, indeed. Is it necessary to say how inferior that Pill was to its Successor, which prince and peasant alike may now obtain? Peasant women kept the unfashionable babies close, and brought them up, and charming grandmammas of sixty dressed and supped as at twenty. Has the British soldier, one wonders, yet discovered Rudyard Kipling, or is the Wessex peasant aware of Thomas Hardy? they but now who seemd In bigness to surpass Earths Giant Sons Now less then smallest Dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pigmean Race Beyond the INDIAN Mount, or Faerie Elves, Whose midnight Revels, by a Forrest side Or Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the Moon Sits Arbitress, and neerer to the Earth Wheels her pale course, they on thir mirth & dance Intent, with jocond M At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
and, setting spurs to his horse, he caused him make a demivolte across the path, raising at the same time the riding rod which he held in his hand, with a purpose of chastising what he considered as the insolence of the peasant. The wretched peasant who has just died is better off than I am. There was once, in a little market-town not far from Upsala, a peasant who lived there with his family, digging the earth during the week and singing in the choir on Sundays.
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