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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
Karelian bear dogs were originally used by Finnish and Russian peasants as watch dogs and for hunting, according to the American Kennel Club.
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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.
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Madeleine Schwartz,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
The painting shows a lush, verdant Italian landscape, whose richness allows even peasants to enjoy leisurely strolls along its paths.
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Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 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.
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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.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
The peasants looked different, weathered.
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Michael Sheridan,
Vanity Fair,
8 Apr. 2026
Its artworks, like Michelangelo's Pieta, have been known to make peasants and popes weep.
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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.
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Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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
The painting shows a lush, verdant Italian landscape, whose richness allows even peasants to enjoy leisurely strolls along its paths.
—
Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasants
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Hang out with sheep, meet magicians and clowns and explore the amusement park.
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The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
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Marlowe, the son of a poor Canterbury cobbler, and Shakespeare, the son of a Stratford glover and alderman, were both unlikely artistic geniuses, provincials in a nation in which social class was rigidly fixed.
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Gelje is one the world’s most renowned mountaineers, with a high-altitude career that includes summiting all 14 of the 8,000-meter peaks.
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The film follows both the mountaineers caught in the storm and the rescue teams racing against time to save them.
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“Peasants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasants. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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