Definition of Peasant
Peasant
peas·ant


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(noun)
a poor person who has a low social position and works as a farmer, chiefly in historical use;

e.g. The poor peasant had to give half of his farm produce to the feudal lord who owned the land.

(noun)
an unsophisticated, poor, and uneducated person;

e.g. They treated us like peasants because of the way we were poorly dressed.



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