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PEASANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A country person
Synonyms:
bucolic; peasant; provincial
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("peasant" is a kind of...):
rustic (an unsophisticated country person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peasant"):
cottar; cotter (a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands)
moujik; mujik; muzhik; muzjik (a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917))
Derivation:
peasanthood (the state of being a peasant)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Synonyms:
barbarian; boor; churl; Goth; peasant; tike; tyke
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("peasant" is a kind of...):
disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)
Sense 3
Meaning:
One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("peasant" is a kind of...):
agricultural laborer; agricultural labourer (a person who tills the soil for a living)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peasant"):
fellah (an agricultural laborer in Arab countries)
Holonyms ("peasant" is a member of...):
peasantry (the class of peasants)
Derivation:
peasanthood (the state of being a peasant)
Context examples:
“By the sweet Virgin! By the blessed Mother of God!” cried the trembling peasant, “I swear to you that in the darkness I have myself lost the path.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
There was something heroic about this gently-bred woman enduring our terrible hardship and with her pittance of strength bending to the tasks of a peasant woman.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You could not find a more lonely tract of road anywhere, and it is quite rare to meet so much as a cart, or a peasant, until you reach the high road near Crooksbury Hill.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The peasant, reading the soldier's meaning in his fierce eyes and harsh accents dropped upon his knees, screaming loudly for mercy.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The peasant woman, perceiving that my mother fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl, eagerly communicated her history.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Outlined against the snow as they were, I could see from the men's clothes that they were peasants or gypsies of some kind.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The peasant made the raven prophesy still more, and said: Thirdly, he says that there is some salad on the bed.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
