Definition of Peasant. Meaning of Peasant. Synonyms of Peasant

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Definition of Peasant

Peasant
Peasant Peas"ant, n. [OF. pa["i]sant (the i being perh. due to confusion with the p. pr. of verbs), pa["i]san, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays country, fr. L. pagus the country. See Pagan.] A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn: Countryman; rustic; swain; hind.
Peasant
Peasant Peas"ant, a. Rustic, rural. --Spenser.

Meaning of Peasant from wikipedia

- Look up peasant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially...
- The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt (German: Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread po****r revolt in some German-speaking...
- The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had...
- A peasant movement is a social movement involved with the agricultural policy, which claims peasants rights. Peasant movements have a long history that...
- a Székely man-at-arms from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility during the reign of King...
- The Croatian Peasant Party (Croatian: Hrvatska seljačka stranka, HSS) is an agrarian political party in Croatia founded on 22 December 1904 by Antun and...
- Bessarabian Peasants' Party Croatian Democratic Peasant Party Croatian Peasant Party Croatian Peasant Party of Stjepan Radić Peasants' Party of Italy Peasant Party...
- The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet...
- The Eloquent Peasant (Ancient Egyptian: Sekhti-nefer-medu, "a peasant good of speech") is an Ancient Egyptian story that was composed around 1850 BCE during...
- The Peasants (Polish: Chłopi) is a novel written by the Polish author Władysław Reymont in four parts between 1904 and 1909. He started writing it in 1897...