peasant

[ UK /pˈɛzənt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛzənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
  2. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
  3. a country person
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How To Use peasant In A Sentence

  • The new textbooks de-emphasize dynastic change, peasant struggle, ethnic rivalry and war, some critics say, because the leadership does not want people thinking that such things matter a great deal.
  • There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output.
  • Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
  • On the basis of the existing study we tries to resurvey and explore the urban inclusion of peasant workers using the perspective of social exclusion.
  • I also visited a cooperative of peasant farmers who grow sesame seed.
  • This woman, dressed in a headscarf, long peasant dress and sweater, stands with her arms folded in front of her as if she is slightly cold or perhaps waiting for a tardy child.
  • The severity, universality, complexity of peasant burden overweight, is to determined fundamentally that solving peasant burden overweight needs long period of time and arduousness of problem.
  • Tuesday, rose from humble beginnings as a peasant herdboy through stages as a teacher, political prisoner and guerrilla chieftain. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • I changed into a pair of black bell-bottoms and a white keyhole peasant shirt that had lace on the cuffs.
  • Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.
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