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

Their instincts as illiterate ex-peasants counseled them against doing so. — Literary Hub, 22 July 2026

Capitalizing on the tide of anti-Rhaenyra sentiment rising among the peasants of King's Landing, Ormund plots to sow further unrest by paying off a band of smallfolk to brutally torture and kill members of the City Watch. — Megan McCluskey, Time, 20 July 2026

The historian Eugen Weber wrote influentially of how peasants who spoke languages like Occitan, Breton, or Basque became—or, more honestly, were made—Frenchmen. — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

Ong cited case studies by the neuropsychologist Alexander Luria, who traveled to remote villages in Uzbekistan and Kirghizia in the 1930s, when peasants were starting to receive rudimentary reading and writing instruction. — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Andrei has taken up farming, and Miles eagerly joins him, hoping that the backbreaking work of scything will enhance his understanding of the Russian peasants he’s supposed to be writing about. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026

Karelian bear dogs were originally used by Finnish and Russian peasants as watch dogs and for hunting, according to the American Kennel Club. — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026

In the early nineteenth century, after Egyptian peasants happened upon ancient fragments, archaeologists began to look in such places for pieces of manuscript, which could vary in size from a few letters to a slice of text. — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026

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. — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026