peasant
Plural: peasants
Noun
- A person of low social rank, typically a farmer.
- a country person
- one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
- a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- 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.
- A country person.
- An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
- A worker unit.
Adj
- Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
- Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.
Examples
- He felt like a peasant compared to his Words With Friends opponent, who always found triple word scores.
- peasant class
Origin / Etymology
From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“countryside”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing"; which was an alteration of earlier Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”). Doublet of paisano.
Synonyms
barbarian, boor, bucolic, churl, Goth, provincial, tike, tyke, bogger, bogtrotter, bydlo, carl, clodhopper, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, culchie, dubbo, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lob, peon, promdi, redneck, rube, rustic, serf, villager, woolly back, yokel
Scrabble Score: 9
peasant: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpeasant: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
peasant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary