Peasant

Definitions

1. A member of the lowly social class that 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.
2. A country person.
3. An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
   derogatory
4. A worker unit.

Equivalents

Examples

“The Ambassador warned him of the consequences if his mission to Moscow were a failure, both to Churchill's position at home and to Russia's prospects in the war. He insisted that he should not allow⟳ himself to be offended 'by a peasant who didn't know⟳ any better'. Churchill listened in silence, then returned to the dacha leaving Clark Kerr outside.”

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