Synonyms for peasant
ˈpɛz əntpeas·ant

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.8 / 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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. peasant

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

   Antonyms:
   citizen, cockney, townsman

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Agricultural Laborer
   • Unpleasant Person

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1. peasantnoun

   Synonyms:
   rustic, countryman, hind, swain

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1. peasantnoun

   Synonyms:
   rustic, swain, hind

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "peasant":

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

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1. Terry Wu:

   Being an OEM is like being a peasant counting on a good year of rain. Why shouldn't we build our own brands, lower the price a bit and offer products that have the same quality as foreign brands.

2. Proverb:

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

3. Katey Sagal:

   It's easier for me in a way to have all the you know, when I put the wig on and I'm in these peasant clothes and, thank God, no high heels … and the accent, and there's just such a different it's just exciting. it’s a little different in that we have acting scenes together. We never had that in ‘Sons,’.

4. Gustavo Petro:

   It would be nice if he decided, once we are in power, to sell his Incauca farm to the government so we can give it to peasant farmers.

5. Abbe Guillaume Raynal:

   The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.