Synonyms for peasant
ˈpɛz əntpeas·ant

Wiktionary(3.83 / 6 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 Antonyms(4.20 / 5 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. peasant

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

   Antonyms:
   citizen, cockney, townsman

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 7 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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

Matched Categories

1. • Agricultural Laborer
   • Unpleasant Person

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Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. peasantnoun

   Synonyms:
   rustic, countryman, hind, swain

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1. peasantnoun

   Synonyms:
   rustic, swain, hind

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1. List of paraphrases for "peasant":

   campesino, campesinas, campesina, farmers, falah, farmer, rural

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1. Abbe Guillaume Raynal:

   The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

2. Thomas Widmann:

   The hypotheses range from a greater propensity to homemade remedies, like medicinal herbs used in peasant tradition ; there are those who assume a more marked anti-authoritarian tendency than elsewhere, for historical reasons ; but I think more practical hypotheses should also be considered, such as logistical difficulties, for those who live at the bottom of a mountain valley, going to a city vaccination center can mean wasting a lot of time.

3. King Henry IV of France:

   Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

4. Ruth Barcena:

   The ones who died were innocent people, [security forces] had no right to take their lives. I know what type of person my husband was; he was humble, he loved life, he gave everything for his family. A fighter. Despite being a peasant, he never had his head down.

5. John Updike:

   Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.