Though "peasant" is a word of loose application, once a market economy had taken root, the term peasant proprietors was frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries …

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.

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, any member of a class of persons who till the soil as small landowners or as agricultural laborers. The peasant economy generally has a relatively simple technology and a division of labor …

PEASANT definition: a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank. See examples of peasant used in a sentence.

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. …

A peasant is a poor person of low social status who works on the land; used to refer to people who live in countries where farming is still a common way of life.

There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the word peasant, two of which are labelled obsolete, and one of which is considered derogatory. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and …

4 days ago · 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 …

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 …