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Plural of peasant

regular plural

The plural of peasant is peasants.

Forms of peasant

Singularpeasant /ˈpɛzənt/
Pluralpeasants /ˈpɛzənts/
Countablecountable

Peasants in a sentence

  • The angry peasants were a virtual army as they attacked the castle.From the entry virtual
  • The knouting of the peasants went on for days in revenge for their uprising.From the entry knouting
  • Beyond the castle, scattered outworks offered some protection for the farther-flung peasants.From the entry outwork
  • The peasants offered no resistance as they were rounded up.From the entry offer
  • The authoritarian government was demanding stricter laws for low-wage peasants.From the entry authoritarian

Meaning of peasant

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A country person.
  3. noun An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

Full definition of peasant

Questions about the plural of peasant

What is the plural of peasant?
The plural of peasant is peasants.
Is peasant countable?
Peasant is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peasant (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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