peasant

[Peas·ant]

If you enjoy reading tales set in the Middle Ages, you’ve probably encountered your fair share of knights, dragons, and peasants, or residents of the countryside.

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A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

Noun
a country person

Noun
a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

Noun
one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers


n.
A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

a.
Rustic, rural.


Peasant

Peas"ant , n. [OF. pa'8bsant (the i being perh. due to confusion with the p.pr. of verbs), pa'8bsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays country, fr. L. pagus the country. See Pagan.] A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind.

Peasant

Peas"ant, a. Rustic, rural. Spenser.

A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

Rustic, rural.

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Usage Examples

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

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