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Peasant meaning
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.
Example sentences (20)
Neither peasant melodies nor imitations of peasant melodies can be found in his music, but it is pervaded by the atmosphere of peasant music.
What sets India apart from the rest of the cane-sugar producing world is the peasant nature of sugarcane production: “As elephants are to merchandise, so sugarcane is to agriculture” — in other words, the acme of peasant production.
A spin-off of TROGDOR!, called Peasant's Quest, is an adventure game featuring Rather Dashing, a young peasant in short pants.
Peasant wedding A peasant wedding is a Dutch carnaval custom.
The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India (1980) *Springer, S. (2012).
Casca went from mountain peasant to skilled warrior and an essential Band of the Falcon member.
Do what we say and like it, peasant!
Look closely at a nativity scene in Spain’s Catalonia region and you will likely spot an unusual figure - a peasant with his pants down and doing his business in the holy scene.
Meanwhile, a peasant university in Meta, established against the backdrop of the civil war, taught the rural population a different way of farming: offering up skills for living in peace with each other and in harmony with nature.
Set in a fantastical ancient China during the Three Kingdoms period, you play as a militia soldier tasked with scouring the historical setting to end a peasant rebellion fueled by anger and drugs (literally).
She trades potatoes and radishes at the market with Ivan the peasant for bales of cotton and rolls of silk which she re-sells quickly to the mill for double the price.
Elsewhere, a few of Sirisco’s (Tony Hale) new peasant friends succumb to the violence, and the one-eyed leader of the mercenaries loses his good eye — and his life.
Even at that time then fellow columnist, Andy Johnson, described a situation of “citizens, prominent and peasant, at one in a collective sense of fear”.
Everybody agrees, from politicians to the police to the peasant to a pedestrian like me: speed kills.
He was a French peasant who joined the army to escape poverty and found himself plunged into the slaughter of the Thirty Years’ War.
I wore one teal tiered peasant skirt just about everywhere.
The Last Phase being the depopulation of those who cannot be indoctrinated to a peasant class of worker-bees whose entire existence would be to die for The Queen.
Aduku was born in 1918, to a peasant farmer at Abejukolo-Ife, at Omaha Local Government Area of Kogi State, and joined the army in 1945.
Cardenal returned to Nicaragua as a priest, and then embarked on what in many ways was his most enduring achievement: founding a religious community among the peasant farmers and fishermen of Solentiname on the island of Mancarrón in Lake Nicaragua.
During the implementation of the culling and destocking measures, indigenous peasant farmers who owned more cattle than the stipulated maximum (of 10) were required to slaughter or sell the excess animals.