as in clown
a person of low social status
Those snobs treat anyone who lives on the "wrong" side of town like an insignificant peasant.
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Recent Examples of peasant
Félix tested his tool on local peasants, killing several in the process.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
In El Salvador in the 1960s, Todd writes, peasants and workers joined with progressive Catholics and intellectuals to push against the country’s oligarchic rulers, known as the fourteen families.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 Feb. 2025
The average Joe had to phone in their orders like some medieval peasant.
—Trent Hoerr, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot pursued his nation to the killing fields to create only one peasant class.
—Lynn Dewoskin Covarrubias, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
In El Salvador in the 1960s, Todd writes, peasants and workers joined with progressive Catholics and intellectuals to push against the country’s oligarchic rulers, known as the fourteen families.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 Feb. 2025
The average Joe had to phone in their orders like some medieval peasant.
—Trent Hoerr, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot pursued his nation to the killing fields to create only one peasant class.
—Lynn Dewoskin Covarrubias, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for peasant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasant
Noun
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Caro Stowell of Thomasville was dressed up like a clown.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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The final moments of the trailer revealed a terrifying figure hiding deep in the woods, one that looked overwhelmingly like a female clown.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This removed one of the last obstacles preventing poor provincials from governing the empire.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
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While early imperial aristocrats saw provincials as subject nations with their own cultures, their working-class replacements considered Romans a single people and expected all to share the same values.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
19 Apr. 2024
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Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.—
Ashley Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2024
Noun
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Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024
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The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.—
John Phillips,
Car and Driver,
18 June 2020
Noun
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The ordeal has forced mountaineers and guides to revisit the ethics—or lack thereof—that climbers follow on the world’s highest peak, and to ask themselves how far climbers should go to improve their changes of actually reaching the top, and who belongs on the peak.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
31 Mar. 2025
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In the parlance of mountaineers, those are natural events over which climbers have no control, such as rockfall, that can cost them their lives.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Off-mountain: Skiers who prefer to stay overnight in nearby Driggs, Idaho (a 20-minute drive from Grand Targhee) have a few rustic, albeit comfortable, possibilities.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Dec. 2024
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Venues tend to lean rustic in much of Hillsborough County.—
Yacob Reyes,
Axios,
20 Dec. 2024
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“Peasant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasant. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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