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• A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality.From the entry quality
• 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 poor peasant was forced to unthatch his house to obtain food for his horse.From the entry unthatch
• 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
• The utopian socialists promised the peasants a Garden of Eden.From the entry Garden of Eden
• The peasants sought the protection of the woodworks.From the entry woodworks
• The peasants were not overcivil in their manners.From the entry overcivil
• When Zhang Jiao and his Yellow Turbans send their peasants, they're not sending their best.2026 January 27, obongommunism, Instagram, depicts the speaker as U.S. President Donald Trump as a Han dynasty emperor. From the entry opium
• They're sending peasants with lots of problems and the peasants bring their problems across the Yangtze.2026 January 27, obongommunism, Instagram, depicts the speaker as U.S. President Donald Trump as a Han dynasty emperor. From the entry opium
• “Ooh, look at that Martina McBride boho peasant blouse. 40% off.2021 April 11, Lauren McGuire, “Hot Tub-tation” (3:29 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 17, spoken by Betty Hart…. From the entry boho
• Doubtless it would include filthy rusalki and bagiennik, and lowly peasant magic.2021, P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn. From the entry bagiennik
• I’m told, Minister Beria did, on occasion, like to perform Mingrelian peasant songs on the balalaika.2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry Mingrelian
• "To begin with, we'll tan the hide of that peasant in the European style.2020 October 27, Andrzej Sapkowski, “In which Scharley Makes an Appearance”, in David French, transl., The Tower of Fools (The Hussite…. From the entry mi-parti
• It would be something like what the Hound did to those peasants.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry cold-blooded
• The man was an upjumped peasant with delusions of his own importance.2014, Brian Stavely, The Emperor's Blades. From the entry jumped-up
• Yet the turn-of-the-century Young Poland writers and artists in Kraków took an even deeper interest in peasants.2014, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Poland: The First Thousand Years, Cornell University Press, page 367. From the entry Young Poland
• The daughter of peasant stock shouldn't strive to be in the ruling class, he thought.”2010, Alfred Lubrano, Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry reach for the sky
• We had these hideous wenchlike uniforms: peasant blouses with poufy skirts.2010, Marni Jameson, House of Havoc. From the entry wenchlike
• All over Chiapas invaders, reinvaders, rival peasant groups, landowners, and former landowners continued to attack one another.2007, Aaron Bobrow-Strain, chapter 7, in Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry reinvader
• It was the compulsory sacrifices of the peasants that allowed the Residenzstadt to flourish.2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 112. From the entry Residenzstadt
• I tend to overspice things, to go for big, peasant flavors.2005, Lela Nargi, Around the Table: Women on Food, Cooking, Nourishment, Love ... and the Mothers who Dished it Up for Them, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry overspice
• With local government encouragement, peasants with donkey carts began hauling away oil in buckets.2005 November 1, Peter S. Goodman, “Oil Investors Tapped Out Of Wells”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Akesu
• There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 156. From the entry seigneur
• Peasant communities were often effectively self-policing, while the newly reorganized maréchaussée served as an ancillary peace-keeping force.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 156. From the entry maréchaussée
• According to the peasant workers, Huang's body floated up six days after the incident.2001, Anita Chan, China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry Houjie
• The peasants did not automatically demand arms to defend a new-won plot of land.1999, Suzanne Pepper, “The Return to Land Reform”, in Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945–1999, Lanham, Md.: Rowman &…. From the entry embolden
• Indeed, far from emboldening the peasant, that fear probably had more of an intimidating influence.1999, Suzanne Pepper, “The Return to Land Reform”, in Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945–1999, Lanham, Md.: Rowman &…. From the entry embolden
• More than one million peasant families—five million people, at least—were dekulakized during collectivization.1996, Lynne Viola, “‘We Have No Kulaks Here’: Peasant Luddism, Evasion, and Self-help”, in Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization…. From the entry dekulakize
• The peculiar links between land, labour, credit and market have trapped the peasants of Kalahandi region.1996, P Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218. From the entry Kalahandi
• Local authorities sometimes are brutal in their efforts to crush the underground Christian church in peasant areas.1994, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry Xunyang
• Take the case of Cai Yutang, an elderly peasant in Pingyu County in Henan Province.1994, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry Pingyu
• This right had been accepted by relative tribals but misobeyed and effaced by non-tribals and foreign peasants.1983, Human Science: Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India, page 141. From the entry tribal
• The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren’s left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 74. From the entry blear
• They assume that peasants are antimarket, prefer common property to private, and dislike buying and selling.1979, Samuel L. Popkin, The rational peasant: the political economy of rural society in Vietnam. From the entry antimarket
• The peasants there are electing production team leaders and other production team cadres by secret ballot.1978 November 27 [1978 November 19], “Szechwan Peasants Elect Production Team Leader By Secret Ballot”, in Daily Report: People's Republic…. From the entry pi
• About 70% of the peasant households in the county can receive wired broadcasts.[1976, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9. From the entry Xingshan

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.

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How do you use peasant in a sentence?

Peasant is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality.”

What is a short sentence with peasant?

“The peasants sought the protection of the woodworks.”

What does peasant mean?

Peasant means 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.