Though "peasant" is a word of loose application, once a market economy had taken root, the term peasant proprietors was frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries …

The meaning of PEASANT is a member of a European class of persons tilling the soil as small landowners or as laborers; also : a member of a similar class elsewhere.

peasant, any member of a class of persons who till the soil as small landowners or as agricultural labourers. The term peasant originally referred to small-scale agriculturalists in Europe in …

PEASANT definition: 1. a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals, etc. on it…. Learn more.

peasant, n. & adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

A peasant is a poor person of low social status who works on the land; used to refer to people who live in countries where farming is still a common way of life.

The peasant is an agricultural worker with roots in the countryside in which he or she dwells, either working for others as a tenant farmer or owning and working by his or her own labor a …

1. a member of a class of small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank, as in Europe, Asia, or Latin America. 2. a coarse, uneducated person. 3. of or characteristic of peasants or their way …

PEASANT definition: a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank. See examples of peasant used in a …

PEASANT meaning: 1 : a poor farmer or farm worker who has low social status used especially to refer to poor people who lived in Europe in the past or to poor people who live in some …