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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 of peasants
And that was to inspire, raise, and command armies of European Christians, including kings, commoners and peasants, to invade the Holy Land and free it from Muslim occupation.
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Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
His paternal grandparents were peasants in Transylvania; his maternal grandparents were also peasants, and his grandmother was illiterate.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
The peasants looked different, weathered.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Its artworks, like Michelangelo's Pieta, have been known to make peasants and popes weep.
—Chris Livesay, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
Müntzer’s teachings helped provoke the widespread uprising of the German peasants in 1525, and have served as a kind of progenitor inspiration for later communist thinkers, from Friedrich Engels to Ernst Bloch.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
This meant people on foot—peasants, in other words.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026
Let the peasants squabble amongst themselves about the refs and how unfair life is.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
German troops and local peasants hauling military vehicles across a river bank near Moscow, 1941.
—Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
His paternal grandparents were peasants in Transylvania; his maternal grandparents were also peasants, and his grandmother was illiterate.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
The peasants looked different, weathered.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Its artworks, like Michelangelo's Pieta, have been known to make peasants and popes weep.
—Chris Livesay, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
Müntzer’s teachings helped provoke the widespread uprising of the German peasants in 1525, and have served as a kind of progenitor inspiration for later communist thinkers, from Friedrich Engels to Ernst Bloch.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
This meant people on foot—peasants, in other words.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026
Let the peasants squabble amongst themselves about the refs and how unfair life is.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
German troops and local peasants hauling military vehicles across a river bank near Moscow, 1941.
—Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasants
Noun
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Once completed, the $5 million acquisition will ensure the theater has a permanent home, a place where skateboarding clowns and leek-haired onions can continue to frolic and dance for decades to come.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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Plot details are being kept under wraps, though the film has been described as a four-quadrant coming-of-age comedy set in the world of funny and evil clowns.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Some mountaineers may have regarded the retreat as a failure of nerve.—
Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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The all-new Sip Essential takes the company's longstanding personal filter straw format and halves weight, ensuring that even the lightest-traveling speed hikers and mountaineers don't find themselves up a creek without a filter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Peasants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasants. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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