Antonyms for peasant
ˈpɛz əntpeas·ant

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.8 / 6 votes

1. peasantnoun

   Synonyms:
   serf, boor, villager, rustic, churl, peon

2. peasantnoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   peon, rustic, boor, churl, serf, villager

3. peasantnoun

   A country person.

   Synonyms:
   churl, boor, peon, serf, villager, rustic

4. peasantnoun

   An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

   Synonyms:
   boor, villager, peon, rustic, churl, serf

5. peasantnoun

   (strategy games) a worker unit

   Synonyms:
   peon, villager, serf, boor, churl, rustic

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. peasant

   Antonyms:
   citizen, cockney, townsman

   Synonyms:
   countryman, hind, clown, laborer, villager, swain, rustic

Matched Categories

1. • Agricultural Laborer
   • Unpleasant Person

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 7 votes

1. peasant, provincial, bucolicnoun

   a country person

   Synonyms:
   bucolic, churl, idyll, barbarian, tyke, provincial, idyl, boor, tike, eclogue

2. peasantnoun

   one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

   Synonyms:
   churl, tyke, bucolic, provincial, boor, barbarian, tike

3. peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tikenoun

   a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

   Synonyms:
   skinflint, nestling, crank, kid, bucolic, nipper, tiddler, savage, small fry, crosspatch, child, shaver, provincial, barbarian, churl, tyke, boor, tike, grouch, niggard, youngster, fry, grump, scrooge, minor

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1. peasantnoun

   Synonyms:
   rustic, swain, hind

How to use peasant in a sentence?

1. Konstanty Gebert:

   Before World War Two speaking in foreign languages was commonplace. You spoke in a different language with a Hungarian horse trader, a Jewish innkeeper or a Ukrainian peasant, that changed radically after the war.

2. Terry Wu:

   Being an OEM is like being a peasant counting on a good year of rain. Why shouldn't we build our own brands, lower the price a bit and offer products that have the same quality as foreign brands.

3. Plato:

   All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

4. Gustavo Petro:

   It would be nice if he decided, once we are in power, to sell his Incauca farm to the government so we can give it to peasant farmers.

5. Hans Konig:

   For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.

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