Peasant
noun
A person who owns or works on a small farm in the countryside.
In the middle ages, peasants were required to give a portion of their harvest to the local lord.
Often appears as...
- medieval peasant
- peasant farmer
noun
A person who is seen as having low intelligence, sophistication or status.
He called them peasants, showing his arrogant attitude.
Often appears as...
- ignorant peasant
- uneducated peasant
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Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
In history, a person who is legally bound to work on a lord's land.
The life of a medieval peasant was laborious and often short.
Often appears as...
- feudal peasant
- land-bound peasant
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A person who owns or works on a small farm in the countryside.
In the middle ages, peasants were required to give a portion of their harvest to the local lord.
Often appears as...
- medieval peasant
- peasant farmer
noun
A person who is seen as having low intelligence, sophistication or status.
He called them peasants, showing his arrogant attitude.
Often appears as...
- ignorant peasant
- uneducated peasant
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
In history, a person who is legally bound to work on a lord's land.
The life of a medieval peasant was laborious and often short.
Often appears as...
- feudal peasant
- land-bound peasant
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Rural Context
Used to illustrate a humble lifestyle or origin related to farming and the countryside.
She had the hands of a peasant, rough from years of working the soil.
Pro Tip 2/3Small-Scale Farming
Refers to someone with a small plot of land rather than vast agriculture operations.
They live like peasants, farming just enough to feed their family.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Pejorative
In this context, it is not insulting and just describes a type of small farmer.
Local peasants sell their produce at the village market.
Pro Tip 1/3Rural Context
Used to illustrate a humble lifestyle or origin related to farming and the countryside.
She had the hands of a peasant, rough from years of working the soil.
Pro Tip 2/3Small-Scale Farming
Refers to someone with a small plot of land rather than vast agriculture operations.
They live like peasants, farming just enough to feed their family.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Pejorative
In this context, it is not insulting and just describes a type of small farmer.
Local peasants sell their produce at the village market.
Pro Tip 1/3Rural Context
Used to illustrate a humble lifestyle or origin related to farming and the countryside.
She had the hands of a peasant, rough from years of working the soil.
Pro Tip 2/3Small-Scale Farming
Refers to someone with a small plot of land rather than vast agriculture operations.
They live like peasants, farming just enough to feed their family.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Pejorative
In this context, it is not insulting and just describes a type of small farmer.
Local peasants sell their produce at the village market.
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Laurie Garrett: What can...
It's one of the most lethal things we've seen in circulation in the world in any recent centuries. And we've dealt with it by killing off lots and lots and lots of chickens, and unfortunately often not reimbursing the peasant farmers with the result that there's cover-up. It's also carried on migration patterns
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Steven Pinker and...
Namely, we seem to be getting more humane. Centuries ago, our ancestors would burn cats alive as a form of popular entertainment. Knights waged constant war on each other by trying to kill as many of each other's peasants as possible. Governments executed people for frivolous reasons,
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History vs. Vladimir...
full of illiterate peasants to a modern, industrial superpower, with one of the world's best educated populations, unprecedented opportunities for women, and some of the most important scientific advancements of the century. Life may not have been luxurious,
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Where do new words come...
these can often be understood the first time you hear them. And sometimes a new word isn't new at all. Obsolete words gain new life by adopting new meanings. Villain originally meant a peasant farmer, but in a twist of aristocratic snobbery
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Sumo PIPE National...
sullied by the Restless peasants what's surprising about sumo is the sheer size of the wrestlers a traditional diet that includes choco lava a stew made from fatty meats cabbage eggs and bean sprouts helps them bulk up entering the
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The building of...
sophisticated detailed crucifix from wood and upon seeing it his friend Donatello proclaimed I've put peasants and farmers on the cross until now he built watches and timing mechanisms but none of this would prevent him from
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The myth of Zeus' test -...
Yet, as the night wore on, and their strange guests took hearty gulps of wine, the clay vessel never ran dry. The couple, at first relieved, grew terrified. Their guests weren’t humble peasants traveling the countryside.
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History vs. Che Guevara...
killing any suspected spies or dissenters. He also helped peasants build health clinics and schools, taught them to read, and even recited poetry to them. His harsh discipline was necessary against a much stronger enemy
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What caused the French...
and they were the only ones who paid taxes, not just to the king, but to the other Estates as well. In bad harvest years, taxation could leave peasants with almost nothing
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Saving the Arctic Fox PIPE...
The fur was it was almost like a year salary for a peasant boy. So it was very valuable.
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Laurie Garrett: What can...
It's one of the most lethal things we've seen in circulation in the world in any recent centuries. And we've dealt with it by killing off lots and lots and lots of chickens, and unfortunately often not reimbursing the peasant farmers with the result that there's cover-up. It's also carried on migration patterns
Video examples
Steven Pinker and...
Namely, we seem to be getting more humane. Centuries ago, our ancestors would burn cats alive as a form of popular entertainment. Knights waged constant war on each other by trying to kill as many of each other's peasants as possible. Governments executed people for frivolous reasons,
Video examples
History vs. Vladimir...
full of illiterate peasants to a modern, industrial superpower, with one of the world's best educated populations, unprecedented opportunities for women, and some of the most important scientific advancements of the century. Life may not have been luxurious,
Video examples
Where do new words come...
these can often be understood the first time you hear them. And sometimes a new word isn't new at all. Obsolete words gain new life by adopting new meanings. Villain originally meant a peasant farmer, but in a twist of aristocratic snobbery
Video examples
Sumo PIPE National...
sullied by the Restless peasants what's surprising about sumo is the sheer size of the wrestlers a traditional diet that includes choco lava a stew made from fatty meats cabbage eggs and bean sprouts helps them bulk up entering the
Video examples
The building of...
sophisticated detailed crucifix from wood and upon seeing it his friend Donatello proclaimed I've put peasants and farmers on the cross until now he built watches and timing mechanisms but none of this would prevent him from
Video examples
The myth of Zeus' test -...
Yet, as the night wore on, and their strange guests took hearty gulps of wine, the clay vessel never ran dry. The couple, at first relieved, grew terrified. Their guests weren’t humble peasants traveling the countryside.
Video examples
History vs. Che Guevara...
killing any suspected spies or dissenters. He also helped peasants build health clinics and schools, taught them to read, and even recited poetry to them. His harsh discipline was necessary against a much stronger enemy
Video examples
What caused the French...
and they were the only ones who paid taxes, not just to the king, but to the other Estates as well. In bad harvest years, taxation could leave peasants with almost nothing
Video examples
Saving the Arctic Fox PIPE...
The fur was it was almost like a year salary for a peasant boy. So it was very valuable.
Example 1 of 10
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George Lucas
American Director
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.
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Doris Lessing
English Writer
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
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Young Thug
American Musician
I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.
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Julie Andrews
English Actress
I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.
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Alton Brown
American Entertainer
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.
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Jennifer Jason Leigh
American Actress
I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.
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Matthew Tobin Anderson
American Author
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
Japanese Leader
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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George Lucas
American Director
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.
Quote examples
Doris Lessing
English Writer
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
Quote examples
Young Thug
American Musician
I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.
Quote examples
Julie Andrews
English Actress
I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.
Quote examples
Alton Brown
American Entertainer
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.
Quote examples
Jennifer Jason Leigh
American Actress
I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.
Quote examples
Matthew Tobin Anderson
American Author
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
Quote examples
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
Japanese Leader
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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