peasant

noun

Definition of peasantnext
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 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 The film opens on a peasant couple summoning their son from a farm field. — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for peasant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasant
  1. clown
  2. provincial
  3. peon
  4. gawk
  5. mountaineer
  6. rustic
Noun
  • In Eli Craig’s (Tucker & Dale vs Evil) newest outing, the real fun starts when Frendo the clown comes out to play.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
  • She’s costumed like a clown, but her screenplay is as confident as an antihero’s cleverest heist.
    — Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2025
Definition of clown
Noun
  • This removed one of the last obstacles preventing poor provincials from governing the empire.
    — Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of provincial
Noun
  • 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
  • Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
Definition of peon
Noun
  • 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
  • The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
Definition of gawk
Noun
  • To listen to him tell it, in English heavily accented by his native Romansh, this was a peaceful place for illiterate, yet skilled mountaineers and off-piste skiers who know far too much about avalanches.
    — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In Blue Origin's words: The mountain represents Spanish mountaineer and adventurer Jesús Calleja, who has climbed the world’s Seven Summits.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of mountaineer
Noun
  • 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
  • Venues tend to lean rustic in much of Hillsborough County.
    — Yacob Reyes, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of rustic

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