peasant

[ˈpeznt]

Definition:
1. A country person.
2. One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers.
3. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.

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Use 'peasant' in a sentence:

1. The country peasant trouser look was in.
2. The government hopes to better the conditions of the peasants.
3. Chinese peasants farm their own plots.
4. The peasants doff their hats.
5. In late 1927 he led the armed peasants into the hills of south Jiangxi.
6. The peasants have levelled three hundred acres of land.
7. The third fared no better, for the peasant again said: "Grete, that is the third."
8. The peasants covered the rice over before the rain began.
9. He was born of a peasant family.
10. We can only imagine the fallen angels with a kind of dim and uncertain light just as the belated peasant sees.
11. Peasants have left the land in the forlorn hope of finding a better life in cities.
12. The peasants threatened to revolt.
13. The peasant once more pinched the raven's head till he croaked loudly.
14. A local peasant led the guerrillas through the forest.
15. The peasant answered, "In the first place, he says that there is some wine hidden under the pillow."
16. The peasant answered, "I have a soothsayer inside it."
17. In France, the children place their shoes by the fireplace, a tradition dating back to when children wore wooden peasant shoes.
18. In the Middle Ages the term 'drab' denoted a very simple type of woollen cloth which was used by peasants to make their clothes.
19. The husband and wife were like czar and peasant, chairman of the board, and receptionist.
20. To strengthen his position in Parliament, he held talks with leaders of the Peasant Party.
21. His has been a peasant familly for generations.
22. The little peasant said to him, "I set you free from the closet, set me free from the barrel."
23. The small peasant was brought before the mayor, and bidden to say from whence his wealth came.
24. The peasant pinched the raven's head, so that he croaked and made a noise like krr, krr.
25. The peasant did everything that he had been told to do.
26. They advised the peasants on how to use the machine.
27. When he went in with his dish, the peasant nudged his wife, and said: "Grete, that is the second."
28. My father is a peasant.
29. She is a mad peasant woman.
30. The peasant said, "If you will get in, you will be mayor."
31. The recent popular uprising was led by a peasant's son.
32. The peasants looked upon him as a specialist.
33. The peasant, however, made off next morning by daybreak with the three hundred talers.
34. His second wife was a Latvian peasant maid.
35. The peasant did not require to be invited twice, but got up and ate.
36. The peasant in Chad sows his millet first, and it is hard to criticize this instinctive priority given to his daily bread.
37. Peasants leave the land but not their home to develop rural enterprises.
38. Eggs were often wrapped in gold leaf, or if you were a peasant, colored brightly by boiling them with the leaves or petals of certain flowers.
39. Peasants still had to pay the rent despite all of the damage inflicted by the storm.
40. He was a peasant in his early years.
41. Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.
42. The miller saw the peasant lying on the straw, and asked, "What is that fellow doing there?"
43. The entire village was dead, and the small peasant, as sole heir, became a rich man.
44. That forced peasant farmers to try to eke a living off steep hillsides.
45. Economic reform has brought relative wealth to peasant farmers.
46. The little peasant said, "Oh, but I must have my beast back again."
47. The peasants store up the grain against famine.
48. Thousands of impoverished peasants are desperate to move to the cities.
49. The peasants depend on a good harvest for their very existence.
50. The peasants rose in revolt.
51. The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
52. The peasants arose against their masters.
53. In the old society, the peasants were ground by poverty.
54. The most interesting ones were outstanding men who were unwilling to accept the meek and passive role of the peasant.
55. They seized the land and distributed it among the peasants.