Skip to main content

peasant

/pez-uhnt/US // ˈpɛz ənt //UK // (ˈpɛzənt) //

农夫,农民,农人,农户

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
    • : a coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person of little financial means.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of peasants or their traditions, way of life, crafts, etc.
    • : of or designating a style of clothing modeled on the folk costumes of Western cultures, especially women's full-sleeved, round-necked blouses and long, full skirts.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • To do this, it transforms itself into an old peasant, a fellow Buddhist or a beautiful young woman.

  • It falls squarely in the cibo povero, or peasant food, category.

  • Some toilet-oriented regurgitation was involved, followed by comical sweating, like you see in “The Wizard of Id” comic strip from a peasant before he is hanged.

  • His coordinators weren’t being snared away from him every other year by desperate peasants such as Texas.

  • This playful memorial recognizes the role of service workers and the taste for imported peasant cuisine.

  • He was a large man, totally bald, with the rough hands of a peasant.

  • After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.

  • Some “new men” from peasant and artisan backgrounds rose, but many others became part of an impoverished proletariat.

  • Pretty well by Russian standards—a free peasant was known as a smerd, meaning “stinker.”

  • Entertaining used to require intelligence or a measure of wit or, at least, peasant cunning.

  • But the observation he thoughtlessly uttered in French seemed to excite the peasant's attention.

  • She was the daughter of a peasant of Livonia, married a Swedish dragoon, who was killed on the same day in battle.

  • In a springtime landscape a young peasant girl is seated beneath a tree, looking before her over a sunlit plain.

  • The king smiled, and remembering his past pleasures, ordered a thousand crowns to the peasant.

  • He was the fourth son of a peasant proprietor of Lectourne, a little town on the slopes of the Pyrenees.