Though "peasant" is a word of loose application, once a market economy had taken root, the term peasant proprietors was frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries …

The meaning of PEASANT is a member of a European class of persons tilling the soil as small landowners or as laborers; also : a member of a similar class elsewhere.

PEASANT definition: 1. a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals, etc. on it…. Learn more.

PEASANT definition: a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank. See examples of peasant used in a sentence.

peasant, any member of a class of persons who till the soil as small landowners or as agricultural labourers. The term peasant originally referred to small-scale agriculturalists in Europe in historic …

1. a member of a class of small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank, as in Europe, Asia, or Latin America. 2. a coarse, uneducated person. 3. of or characteristic of peasants or their way of life. 4. …

5 days ago · peasant (plural peasants) A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land …