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The meaning of PEASANT is a member of a European class of persons tilling the soil as small landowners or as laborers; also : a member of a similar class elsewhere.
peasant, any member of a class of persons who till the soil as small landowners or as agricultural labourers. The term peasant originally referred to small-scale agriculturalists in Europe in historic times, but many other societies, both past and present, have had a peasant class.
PEASANT definition: a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank. See examples of peasant used in a sentence.
- a member of a class of small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank, as in Europe, Asia, or Latin America. 2. a coarse, uneducated person. 3. of or characteristic of peasants or their way of life. 4. modeled on the folk costumes of Western cultures: peasant blouses.
PEASANT meaning: 1. a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals, etc. on it…. Learn more.
A peasant is a poor person of low social status who works on the land; used to refer to people who live in countries where farming is still a common way of life.
Definition of peasant noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.