Synonyms of peasants

peasants

noun

plural of peasant

as in clowns

a person of low social status

Those snobs treat anyone who lives on the "wrong" side of town like an insignificant peasant.

Related Words

• clowns
• peons
• provincials
• rustics
• gawks
• mountaineers
• boors
• bumpkins
• countrymen
• clods
• yokels
• rubes
• hicks
• louts
• oafs
• hayseed
• churls
• greenhorns
• clodhoppers
• backwoodsmen
• cornballs
• tenderfeet
• chawbacons

Dissimilar Words

• sophisticates
• cosmopolitans
• suburbanites
• urbanites
• slickers
• cosmopolites
• smoothies
• metropolitans

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of peasants

Happy peasants, miserable millionaires Graham first spotted the pattern in China. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026

For the medieval peasants whose skeletons limned the walls, death was a prolonged nap until everyone woke up during the rapture. — Kristin Idaszak, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2026

After all, from 1773 to 1775, more than thirty-five thousand agriculturalist peasants made war against Russia, in what is commonly referred to as Pugachev’s Rebellion, after the name of its leader. — Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026

In real life millions of peasants were deported, executed, or starved during collectivization. — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

Influential courtiers orbited more closely than those with less gravity, and peasants weren’t part of the picture. — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

The video sweeps around a reveling fiefdom, showing everyone from peasants to dukes partying and getting it on. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

The violence that has been simmering with the Ploughman now erupts into a revolution joined by thousands and thousands of peasants. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026

Just last week, Minnesota strolled into San Francisco, delivered a clinical beatdown and strutted off the floor like brash royalty, reminding the peasants of their place. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026