Peasant
41peasant — I. n. Rustic, countryman, hind, swain, clown, laborer. II. a. Rustic, rural …
42peasant — noun 1) peasants working the land Syn: agricultural worker, small farmer, rustic, swain, villein, serf, campesino; historical habitant 2) informal you peasants! See boor …
43peasant — n rustic, provincial, country cousin, countryman, hobnail; farmer, plowman, plowboy, chuff, gaffer, swain, kerne or kern, son or tiller of the soil, (in Egypt) fellah, (in Russia) muszhik or mujick, (in Spanish America and Southwestern U.S.) peon …
44peasant — peas·ant …
45peasant — [ˈpez(ə)nt] noun [C] a poor person who works on another person s farm or on their own small farm, especially in the past …
46peasant — /ˈpɛzənt / (say pezuhnt) noun 1. one of a class of persons, of inferior social rank, living in the country and engaged usually in agricultural labour. 2. a rustic or countryman. 3. Colloquial an unsophisticated person; one unable to appreciate… …
47peasant — Lōpā …
48peasant — n. 1 esp. colloq. a countryman or countrywoman; a rustic. 2 a a worker on the land, esp. a labourer or smallholder. b hist. a member of an agricultural class dependent on subsistence farming. 3 derog. a lout; a boorish person. Derivatives:… …
49peasant revolt — noun a) In European history, a popular revolt by peasants against their lords and the institution of serfdom. b) By extention, any uprising of agricultural workers …
50PEASANT WAR or BAUERNKRIEG — revolt of the peasantry in the S. and W. of Germany against the oppression and cruelty of the nobles and clergy which broke out at different times from 1500 to 1525, and which, resulting in their defeat, rendered their lot harder than before.… …