- Peasant - Wikipedia
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord [1][2] In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: non-free slaves, semi-free serfs, and free tenants
- PEASANT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PEASANT is a member of a European class of persons tilling the soil as small landowners or as laborers; also : a member of a similar class elsewhere How to use peasant in a sentence
- PEASANT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
PEASANT definition: 1 a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals, etc on it… Learn more
- peasant - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
peasant (plural peasants) A member of the lowly social class that 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
- PEASANT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
A peasant is a poor person of low social status who works on the land; used of people who live in countries where farming is still a common way of life the peasants in the Peruvian highlands Chinese peasants farm their own plots
- peasant, n. adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
peasant is a borrowing from French Etymons: French paisant, païsant
- Peasant - definition of peasant by The Free Dictionary
1 a member of a class of small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank, as in Europe, Asia, or Latin America 2 a coarse, uneducated person 3 of or characteristic of peasants or their way of life 4 modeled on the folk costumes of Western cultures: peasant blouses
- Peasant - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A peasant is a name for a person that worked for others on a farm and never had much money They usually wore rough, uncomfortable clothes and lived in small houses The word peasant came from the French word for "country" in the medieval era (15th century)
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