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peasanty Definition


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peasant
noun
    1. In poor agricultural societies: a farm worker or small farmer.
      Thesaurus: rustic, provincial, farmer, farm worker, sharecropper, labourer.
    2. derog
      A rough unmannerly or culturally ignorant person.
Derivative: peasantry
    The peasant class.
    The condition of being a peasant.
Derivative: peasanty
adj
    In the style of a peasant.
Etymology: 15c: from French païsant, from Latin pagus country district.



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