peasant

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Recent Examples of peasant Wealthier merchants, for example, were charged double the poll tax rate and five times the property rate of a free peasant. Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025 The restrictive Prussian voting system diluted the impact of rural peasants, who were often more conservative than the liberal elite voted into the legislature. Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025 The Gospel authors, far from being community leaders preserving oral sayings for largely illiterate followers, were highly literate members of a small, erudite upper crust, distant in experience, attitude, and geography from any Galilean peasant preachers. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025 Set in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, where Mateus was raised, a peasant community of grape-pickers become agents in an open-air ritual of remembrance and rebellion. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for peasant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasant
Noun
  • In the ‘30s and ‘40s, there were all these clowns trying to sell things, and then there was Krinkles the Clown trying to sell cereal [in the ‘50s].
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
  • Matthew Davies, 41, was taken into custody on suspicion of assaulting a man with a glass bottle while dressed up as a clown on Oct. 31, 2018, according to a news release issued by the department.
    Vincent Moleski, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • The same year, he was appointed as a provincial for the order.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Not long after his ordination, he was named the Jesuit provincial for Argentina, which put him in charge of the order’s activities throughout the country.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.
    Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
Noun
  • The ability to adapt and persist remains essential for both mountaineers and business founders.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • As such, it's become a destination for mountaineers and thrill-seekers all over the world.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Classical Rudersdal, Denmark, situated beside Copenhagen and along the open coast, exists in a perpetual tug-of-war between the rustic and the modern.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Off-mountain: Skiers who prefer to stay overnight in nearby Driggs, Idaho (a 20-minute drive from Grand Targhee) have a few rustic, albeit comfortable, possibilities.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2024

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“Peasant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasant. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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