[
UK
/pˈɛzənt/
]
[ US /ˈpɛzənt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛzənt/ ]
NOUN
- one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
- a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- a country person
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.