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Synonyms for peasant
ˈpɛz əntpeas·ant

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Wiktionary3.8 / 6 votes

  1. peasantnoun

    Synonyms:
    serf, boor, villager, rustic, churl, peon

  2. peasantnoun

    A member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.

    Synonyms:
    peon, rustic, boor, churl, serf, villager

  3. peasantnoun

    A country person.

    Synonyms:
    churl, boor, peon, serf, villager, rustic

  4. peasantnoun

    An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

    Synonyms:
    boor, villager, peon, rustic, churl, serf

  5. peasantnoun

    (strategy games) a worker unit

    Synonyms:
    peon, villager, serf, boor, churl, rustic

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.2 / 5 votes

  1. peasant

    Synonyms:
    countryman, hind, clown, laborer, villager, swain, rustic

    Antonyms:
    citizen, cockney, townsman

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 7 votes

  1. peasant, provincial, bucolicnoun

    a country person

    Synonyms:
    bucolic, churl, idyll, barbarian, tyke, provincial, idyl, boor, tike, eclogue

  2. peasantnoun

    one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

    Synonyms:
    churl, tyke, bucolic, provincial, boor, barbarian, tike

  3. peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tikenoun

    a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

    Synonyms:
    skinflint, nestling, crank, kid, bucolic, nipper, tiddler, savage, small fry, crosspatch, child, shaver, provincial, barbarian, churl, tyke, boor, tike, grouch, niggard, youngster, fry, grump, scrooge, minor

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pallar

    Submitted by jayabvn2020 on June 30, 2021  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. peasantnoun

    Synonyms:
    rustic, countryman, hind, swain

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. peasantnoun

    Synonyms:
    rustic, swain, hind

PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "peasant":

    campesino, campesinas, campesina, farmers, falah, farmer, rural

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How to use peasant in a sentence?

  1. Proverb:

    A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

  2. John Updike:

    Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

  3. Plato:

    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.

  4. John Berger:

    A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

  5. Luigi Barzini:

    They eat the dainty food of gamous 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.


Translations for peasant

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  • فلاحArabic
  • селянка, селянінBelarusian
  • camperolCatalan, Valencian
  • sedlák, rolníkCzech
  • Bäuerin, Plebejerin, Bauerntum, Bauer, Bauernbub, Banause, Kleinbauer, Dorfbewohnerin, arm, Bauernlümmel, Plebejer, Bauernjunge, Dörflerin, Landmann, Dorfbewohner, Proletin, Landfrau, Bauersfrau, Dörfler, Bauernschaft, Bauernmädchen, Banausin, Prolet, KleinbäuerinGerman
  • αγρότης, χωρικός, αγροίκοςGreek
  • kamparanoEsperanto
  • campesinoSpanish
  • talonpoika, maalainen, torppari, pienviljelijä, moukkaFinnish
  • paysanne, villageoise, rustaud, paysan, rustique, villageois, rustaudeFrench
  • tuathánachIrish
  • tuathanachScottish Gaelic
  • gazdálkodó, paraszt, földművesHungarian
  • շինական, գյուղացիArmenian
  • paesano, cafona, contadino, cafone, paesana, contadinaItalian
  • 農夫, 小作人, 小百姓, 農民, 百姓Japanese
  • გლეხიGeorgian
  • 농민, 農夫, 농부, 農民Korean
  • селанец, селанка, копитоMacedonian
  • boer, landbouwer, plattelander, boerenpummmel, landarbeider, landmanDutch
  • chłop, chłopkaPolish
  • camponês, rústicoPortuguese
  • țăranRomanian
  • мужлан, мужик, крестьянин, крестьянка, селянин, деревенщинаRussian
  • seljak, сељак, кмет, kmet, сељанка, seljankaSerbo-Croatian
  • விவசாயTamil
  • селянин, селянкаUkrainian
  • 農民, nông dânVietnamese
  • feilan, länädanVolapük

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