peasants

Noun

peasant (plural peasants)

1. 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 where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
   • The Ambassador warned him of the consequences if his mission to Moscow were a failure, both to Churchill's position at home and to Russia's prospects in the war. He insisted that he should not allow himself to be offended 'by a peasant who didn't know any better'. Churchill listened in silence...1986, Martin Kitchen, British Policy Towards the Soviet Union during the Second World War, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137

   Synonyms:

   peon, serf

2. A country person.

   Synonyms:

   churl, rustic, villager

3. (derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

   Synonyms:

   boor, bogger, bogtrotter, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker

4. (strategy games) A worker unit.

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