The meaning of Peasants

Peasants – definition

noun
A poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).
Usage examples:
Peasants left the farms to work in industry
Synonims:
Agricultural worker Small farmer Rustic Son of the soil Countryman Countrywoman Farmhand Swain Villein Serf Paysan Muzhik Kulak Campesino Paisano Contadino Fellah Ryot Carl Cottier Kern Hind

noun
A member of a low social class of farm workers and owners of small farms

Peasants translation into English

Peasants: translate from English into Chinese

农民, 农, 农夫, 农人

Peasants: translate from English into Dutch

Boeren, Boer, Landman, Plattelander

Peasants: translate from English into French

Paysans, Paysan, Rustre

Peasants: translate from English into German

Bauern, Bauer, Landwirt, Banause, Schlot, Primitivling

Peasants: translate from English into Hindi

किसानों, किसान, कृषक, खेतिहर, मूर्ख, अनाड़ी, देहाती

Peasants: translate from English into Italian

Contadini, Contadino, Cafone, Paesano

Peasants: translate from English into Korean

농민, 농부

Peasants: translate from English into Russian

Крестьяне, Крестьянин

Peasants: translate from English into Spanish

Campesinos, Campesino, Palurdo, Paleto

Word origin

late Middle English: from Old French paisent ‘country dweller’, from pais ‘country’, based on Latin pagus ‘country district’.

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Peasants – similar words

peasantize

verb
To give the characteristics of a peasant economy to (an economy or social system); to make a peasant of (a person).

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peasantism

noun
The doctrine that power should be vested in the peasant class. also russian history: the doctrine that the peasant class and the intelligentsia are the only true revolutionary forces; narodnikism.

noun
The state or condition of being a peasant; conduct or attitudes characteristic of or attributed to peasants; identification or sympathy with peasant life.

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peasant

noun
A poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).
Usage examples:
Peasants left the farms to work in industry

noun
A member of a low social class of farm workers and owners of small farms

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Peasants synonims

campesino

noun
(in spain and spanish-speaking countries) a peasant farmer.
Usage examples:
Most are smallholder farmers who call themselves campesinos.

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carl

noun
A peasant or man of low birth.
Usage examples:
The fact that the figure on the salt is well dressed and wears a sword indicates that, if he is a c…

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contadino

noun
An italian peasant or countryman.
Usage examples:
Both in their seventies, they are contadini - peasant farmers - who have suffered from the recessio…

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cottier

noun
A rural labourer living in a cottage.
Usage examples:
The tenants, she noted, were a varied group, comprising farmers with large holdings, smallholders a…

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countryman

noun
A person from the same country as someone else.
Usage examples:
They trust a fellow countryman

noun
A person from your own country

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countrywoman

noun
A woman from the same country as someone else.
Usage examples:
Simpson and her fellow countrywomen head to perth

noun
A woman living or born in a rural area.
Usage examples:
She was a countrywoman through and through

noun
A woman from your own country
Usage examples:
On the train i got into conversation with a fellow countrywoman.

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farmhand

noun
A worker on a farm.
Usage examples:
New entrants are more likely than established farmers to have spent time as farmhands or hired farm…

noun
A person who is paid to work on a farm

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fellah

noun
An egyptian peasant.
Usage examples:
With its nile-side corniche awash with fellahin peasants and regal women in dark burqua gowns, this…

noun
Non-standard spelling of fellow, used in representing speech in various dialects.
Usage examples:
You can't blame the wee fella

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hind

adjective
(especially of a bodily part) situated at the back; posterior.
Usage examples:
A hind leg

noun
A female deer, especially a red deer or sika in and after the third year.
Usage examples:
Our second visit was a success and as we got closer to the farm we saw a group of hinds and deer gr…

noun
A skilled farm worker, typically married and with a tied cottage.

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kern

verb
Adjust the spacing between (characters) in a piece of text to be printed.
Usage examples:
Please kern the double underscores in the code below

noun
The part of a metal type projecting beyond the body or shank, or a part of a printed character that overlaps its neighbours.

noun
A light-armed irish foot soldier.
Usage examples:
Composition involved, in gaelic parts, the commutation of the chief's right to take up supplies for…

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kulak

noun
A peasant in russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labour. emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century the kulaks resisted stalin's forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed.
Usage examples:
Many in the party were now convinced that kulaks were holding the country to ransom.

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muzhik

noun
A russian peasant.
Usage examples:
He is, as they say in russian, a real muzhik - a fine fellow, one of the boys.

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paisano

noun
A peasant of spanish or italian ethnic origin.
Usage examples:
He is decidedly sympathetic to native americans, paisanos (spanish and mexican laborers), and other…

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rustic

adjective
Relating to the countryside; rural.
Usage examples:
Sonntag occasionally populated his landscapes with a lone land hunter, usually near his rustic log …

noun
An unsophisticated country person.
Usage examples:
They paused to watch the rustics dance and carouse

adjective
Typical of the country (= land not in cities), esp. because of being attractively simple
Usage examples:
We stayed in rustic cabins, with no electricity.

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ryot

noun
An indian peasant or tenant farmer.
Usage examples:
The vice-chancellor of the tamil nadu agricultural university and the director of seed certificatio…

noun
A person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops or keeps animals on it

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serf

noun
An agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on his lord's estate.

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swain

noun
A young lover or suitor.
Usage examples:
‘you sound like a lovesick swain,’ she told him, and walked to the window.

noun
A young man who loves, or is having a relationship with, a woman

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villein

noun
(in medieval england) a feudal tenant entirely subject to a lord or manor to whom he paid dues and services in return for land.
Usage examples:
The court customary was the court for unfree tenants or villeins and was presided over by the lord'…

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