peasant
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɛzənt/, SAMPA: /"pEz@nt/
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English paissaunt, from Middle French paisant, from Old French païs (“‘country’”), from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“‘inhabitant of a district’”), from Latin pāgus (“‘district’”).
[edit] Noun
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peasant (plural peasants)
- A member of the lowly social class which 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.
- (strategy games) a worker unit
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[edit] Translations
member of the agriculture low class
country person
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uncouth, crude, or ill-bred person
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strategy games: worker unit
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[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of aaenpst
- anapest
