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

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

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