Definitions for peasant

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peasant peas·ant

Spelling: [pez-uh nt]

IPA: /ˈpɛz ənt/

Peasant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in peasant (aaenpst).

Definitions for peasant

noun

1. 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.
2. a coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person of little financial means.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of peasants or their traditions, way of life, crafts, etc.
2. of or designating a style of clothing modeled on the folk costumes of Western cultures, especially women's full-sleeved, round-necked blouses and long, full skirts.

Origin of peasant

1375-1425; late Middle English paissaunt Anglo-French paisant, Old French païsant, earlier païsenc, equivalent to païs country (Late Latin pāgēnsis, equivalent to Latin pāg(us) country distri

Examples for peasant

Bentzon gives us for hero the village doctor, son of a peasant.

His template for government was the peasant fantasy he dreamed up during his years of service on a Soviet pig farm.

Some “new men” from peasant and artisan backgrounds rose, but many others became part of an impoverished proletariat.

He had a muffler round his neck, and was wearing a peasant's cloak of a dark colour.

Do come out, or the peasant will stick his pitchfork into you.

"Oh, blessed be the sound of your voice," replied the peasant.

After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.

He was a large man, totally bald, with the rough hands of a peasant.

I have now a fairly representative experience of the French peasant.

Entertaining used to require intelligence or a measure of wit or, at least, peasant cunning.