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

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

Mansour persevered, turning out bright canvases of olive groves and peasants that brought to mind his former home and were well received. — News Desk, Artforum, 28 Aug. 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

Just as with the Romans, we peasants are treated to a spectacle to distract us from the reality of the abject impoverishment of the social safety net and the abandonment of the poor. — Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

Long before the official ban on private farming was lifted in 1982, peasants across China spontaneously reintroduced private ownership in defiance of socialist doctrine. — Rainer Zitelmann, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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