PEASANT Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

peasant

noun

as in clown

a person of low social status Those snobs treat anyone who lives on the "wrong" side of town like an insignificant peasant.

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Recent Examples on the Web As Ethiopia transitioned from an agrarian peasant society to a fast-developing capitalist economy in the new millennium, ethnic boundaries sometimes clashed with the growth of cities grew and with the movements of a mobile workforce. —

Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024 But that mission wasn’t easy: Olson had to disguise himself as a Russian peasant, taking a public bus out to the countryside on a route often patrolled by militia. —

Cnbc.com Staff, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024 While in Russia, Imbrie witnessed a peasant shot dead by a guard over a miniscule amount of food—a portent of the Great Famine that would soon claim millions of lives. —

Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024 In the mid-fifteen-hundreds, a Swedish peasant named Nils lived on an island called Iggön in the Baltic Sea. —

Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for peasant

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