- PEASANT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
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 - Wikipedia
Though "peasant" is a word of loose application, once a market economy had taken root, the term peasant proprietors was frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries where smallholders farmed much of the land
- PEASANT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
PEASANT definition: 1 a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals, etc on it… Learn more
- Peasant - definition of peasant by The Free Dictionary
1 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 | Definition Facts | Britannica
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 noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of peasant noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- PEASANT definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
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
- Peasant - New World Encyclopedia
The peasant is an agricultural worker with roots in the countryside in which he or she dwells, either working for others as a tenant farmer or owning and working by his or her own labor a small plot of ground
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