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The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
Herman Gorter

Meaning of "peasant" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PEASANT

From Anglo-French, from Old French païsant, from païs country, from Latin pāgus rural area.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PEASANT

peasant  [ˈpɛzənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEASANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Peasant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PEASANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

peasant

Peasant

A peasant is a member of a traditional class of farmers, either laborers or owners of small farms, especially in the Middle Ages under feudalism, or more generally, in any pre-industrial society. In Europe, peasants were divided into three classes according to their personal status: slave, serf, and freeman. Peasants either hold title to land in fee simple, or hold land by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.

Definition of peasant in the English dictionary

The first definition of peasant in the dictionary is a member of a class of low social status that depends on either cottage industry or agricultural labour as a means of subsistence. Other definition of peasant is a person who lives in the country; rustic. Peasant is also an uncouth or uncultured person.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PEASANT


accusant
əˈkjuːzənt
Besant
ˈbɛzənt
bezant
ˈbɛzənt
bezzant
ˈbɛzənt
brisant
ˈbriːzənt
cicatrisant
ˌsɪkəˈtraɪzənt
cognisant
ˈkɒɡnɪzənt
cognizant
ˈkɒɡnɪzənt
complaisant
kəmˈpleɪzənt
doesn´t
ˈdʌzənt
hasn´t
ˈhæzənt
isn´t
ˈɪzənt
omnipresent
ˌɒmnɪˈprɛzənt
pheasant
ˈfɛzənt
pleasant
ˈplɛzənt
present
ˈprɛzənt
recusant
ˈrɛkjʊzənt
unpleasant
ʌnˈplɛzənt
wasn´t
ˈwɒzənt
wisent
ˈwiːzənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PEASANT

peart
peartly
peartness
pearwood
Peary
peasantry
peasanty
peascod
pease
pease pudding
pease-brose
peasecod
peashooter
peasouper
peat

WORDS THAT END LIKE PEASANT

antidepressant
argus pheasant
croissant
degreasant
depressant
displeasant
en passant
golden pheasant
immunosuppressant
incessant
malfeasant
Maupassant
Ouessant
passant
pissant
puissant
ring-necked pheasant
sant
Stuyvesant
versant

Synonyms and antonyms of peasant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PEASANT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «peasant» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of peasant

Translation of «peasant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PEASANT

Find out the translation of peasant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of peasant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «peasant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

农民
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

campesino
570 millions of speakers

English

peasant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

किसान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفلاح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

крестьянин
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

camponês
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চাষী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paysan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Petani
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bauer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

小作人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소작농
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Petani
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nông dân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விவசாய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शेतकर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

köylü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contadino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chłop
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

селянин
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

țăran
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χωρικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

boer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bonde
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bonde
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of peasant

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PEASANT»

The term «peasant» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.442 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PEASANT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «peasant» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «peasant» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about peasant

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10 QUOTES WITH «PEASANT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word peasant.
1
Luigi Barzini
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.
2
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.
3
Mayim Bialik
I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
4
Sebastian Faulks
There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.
5
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Nikolai Gogol
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
7
Herman Gorter
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
8
Henry IV
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
9
Saddam Hussein
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.
10
James Earl Jones
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEASANT»

Discover the use of peasant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to peasant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Poet & Peasant ; And, Through Peasant Eyes: A ...
Uses a thorough understanding of Middle Eastern peasant culture and modern literary criticism to analyze the New Testament parables in Luke
Kenneth E. Bailey, 1983
2
Images of the Medieval Peasant
This book examines these conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants’ War.
Paul H. Freedman, 1999
3
Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen
This book is written for the people who are not professional historians in order to introduce them to late medieval Germany, to German scholarship, and to a process of thinking about history.
Richard M. Wunderli, 1992
4
Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
"Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Algeria, Cuba, and Viet Nam--not from the perspective of governments or parties or leaders, but ...
Eric R. Wolf, 1969
5
Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of ...
"Mr. Johnson's research on the Chinese Communists' wartime expansion, according to the documentation recorded by Japanese intelligence and his comparison of it with that of the Yugoslav Communists, is a pathbreaking work in comparative ...
Chalmers A. Johnson, 1962
6
Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan
Stephen Vlastos's examination of the changing patterns of peasant protest in the Fukushima area shows that peasant mobilization was restricted both ideologically and organizationally and that peasants did not become a prime moving force in ...
Stephen Vlastos, 1990
7
Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru
With this book Mallon not only forges a new path for Latin American history but challenges the very concept of nationalism.
Florencia E. Mallon, 1995
8
The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and ...
These twelve essays explore the nature of south Asian agrarian society and examine the extent to which it changed during the period of British rule.
Eric Stokes, 1980
9
Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania
Peasant Intellectuals is based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 and includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society.
Steven M. Feierman, 1990
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Peasant Economics: Farm Households in Agrarian Development
Key topics are efficiency, risk, time allocation, gender, agrarian contracts, farm size and technological change as well as the environment, in a revised and expanded edition of this popular textbook on the economics of farm households in ...
Frank Ellis, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEASANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term peasant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Kourtney Kardashian has family support after split as she heads out …
Lord Disick hosted a Peasant Party at Cowboys and a snap on the club's Instagram account showed the 32-year-old looking miserable despite ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Scott Disick looks miserable as he poses with blonde beauties at …
... from long-term partner Kourtney Kardashian, hung out with the glamorous pair, who looked a bit like sisters, as he hosted a Peasant Party at ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Weeds by Nina Edwards, review: 'nutritious'
Women have always been central to peasant life; their role tough. Not surprising, then, that the earliest Japanese scrolls depict not only ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Chambersburg students to perform Les Miserables
The story follows Jean Valjean, a peasant and thief, in 19th century France after he is released from prison. Valjean tries to create a new life for ... «Chambersburg Public Opinion, Jul 15»
5
How Joan of Arc saved France and became a legend
She seemed so certain of her mission in a way that seemed impossible for a peasant girl, especially one dressed as a man. “She's become ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
6
Art Can Inspire Faith; It Can Also Empower Destructive Ideologies
Historian William Manchester, in his book A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, gives a grim picture of peasant life ... «Algemeiner, Jul 15»
7
They Say Paraguay Is In Africa: Mosaic Of Horror
... forces as they attempted to evict some 100 peasant farmers occupying the land of a wealthy former Stroessner-era Colorado politician. «CounterCurrents.org, Jul 15»
8
Pride, marriage equality, and LGBTIQ liberation in the Philippines
... recognize gay and lesbian Filipinos and robbed them of their dignity as people in society, many of whom were laborers and peasant-farmers. «InterAksyon, Jul 15»
9
Fashion 101: Back-to-school style
The fashion pendulum is also swinging back to the flare leg and peasant tops with a feminine touch to a hippie influenced style, she said. «Toledo Blade, Jul 15»
10
Guiding the Unruly Peasant Mob of Super Dungeon Run
Peasants don't belong in dungeons, or at least not the video game kind. The little guys have what can kindly be considered a club but is ... «Hardcore Gamer, Jul 15»

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