peasant meaning
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peasant peas•ant. 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. modeled on the folk costumes of Western cultures: peasant blouses.
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- Definition of farmer. 1 : a person who pays a fixed sum for some privilege or source of income. 2 : a person who cultivates land or crops or raises animals (such as livestock or fish)
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- peasant (n.) early 15c., from Anglo-French paisant (mid-14c.), Old French paisent local inhabitant (12c., Modern French paysan), earlier paisenc, from pais country, region ( from Latin pagus; see pagan) + Frankish suffix -enc -ing.
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- Peasant oringally refered to the lowest class of society often small farmers, tenants, laborers who had to do hard manual labour to earn a small wage. They lived in poverty. It is now used as an insult as well.
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Definition of 'peasant' In Common Usage. peasant is one of the 10000 most commonly used words in the Collins dictionary
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vassal Definition of vassal. 1  1 : a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant. 2  2 : one in a subservient or subordinate position.
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vassal Vassal definition, (in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant. a person holding some similar relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, follower, or retainer.
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PAUPER Dictionary entry overview: What does pauper mean? • PAUPER (noun) The noun PAUPER has 1 sense: 1. a person who is very poor Familiarity information: PAUPER used as a noun is very rare.
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- Define yeoman: an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household; a person attending or assisting another : retainer — yeoman in a sentence an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household; a person attending or assisting another : retainer; yeoman of the guard… See the full definition since 1828
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LÃ¤ndler Dance, “Peasant Dance”Kunsthistoriches, Vienna, Austria/SuperStockthe movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to music and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself.
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- Definition of Peasants – Our online dictionary has Peasants information from Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire dictionary. Encyclopedia.com: English, psychology and medical dictionaries
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- According to the law a peasant did not belong to themselves. They and all their belongings, their house clothes and even their food was owned by the lord of the manor. Known as serfs or villeins, peasants were bound to work for their lord, who allowed them to farm their own piece of land in return.Their lives were ones of constant toil.hey and all their belongings, their house clothes and even their food was owned by the lord of the manor. Known as serfs or villeins, peasants were bound to work for their lord, who allowed them to farm their own piece of land in return. Their lives were ones of constant toil.
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- The noun PEASANT has 3 senses: 1. a country person. 2. one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers. 3. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement. Familiarity information: PEASANT used as a noun is uncommon.
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Agrarianism Agrarianism is a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values. It stresses the superiority of a simpler rural life as opposed to the complexity of city life. Contents.
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- Definition of villein. 1 : a free common villager or village peasant of any of the feudal classes lower in rank than the thane. 2 : a free peasant of a feudal class higher in rank than a cotter.
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tenant farmer Definition of tenant farmer for English Language Learners. : a farmer who raises crops on land that is rented from someone else.
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Definitions &Translations Farm′-bai′liff; Farm′er, one who farms or cultivates land: the tenant of a farm: one who collects taxes, &c., for a certain rate per cent.:—fem. Farm′eress; Farm′ering, the business of a farmer.—n.pl. Farm′ers-gen′eral, the name given before the French Revolution to the members of a privileged association in France, who leased the public revenues of the nation.—ns.
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yeoman (history) 1  a member of a class of small freeholders of common birth who cultivated their own land. 2  an assistant or other subordinate to an official, such as a sheriff, or to a craftsman or trader. 3  an attendant or lesser official in a royal or noble household.
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- (ˈtenənt) noun. a person who pays rent to another for the use of a house, building, land etc. That man is a tenant of the estate; (also adjective) tenant farmers. huurder مُسْتأجِر наемател inquilino nájemce, nájemní der/die Pächter(in); Pacht-...
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peasant- definition and synonyms A must for anyone with an interest in the changing face of language. The Macmillan Dictionary blog explores English as it is spoken around the world today. Definition and synonyms of peasant from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Publishers Limited.his is the British English definition of peasant. View American English definition of peasant. Change your default dictionary to American English. View the pronunciation for peasant.
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bourgeois bourgeois / ˈbʊəʒwɑː; bʊəˈʒwɑː / often derogatory n (pl-geois) a member of the middle class, esp one regarded as being conservative and materialistic or (in Marxist thought) a capitalist exploiting the working class; a mediocre, unimaginative, or materialistic person; adj. characteristic of, relating to, or comprising the middle class
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Thread: Meanings of Avakhada Chakra on natal chart? Either that which you will be surrounded by or those that can cause some opposition; In this case: the vaiśya is called out i.e. (officially) a man/person who 'settles on the soil' , a peasant , or 'working man', agriculturist , man of the third class or caste whose business was trade as well as agriculture.
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Origins and Meanings of Surnames Medieval Serfs and Peasants. A medieval village or manor usually contained several classes of laborers, consisting of serfs and peasants. There might be a number of freemen, who paid a fixed rent, either in money or produce, for the use of their land.
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pauper The definition of a pauper is  a poor person or someone with limited or no financial resources. A very poor person living on the streets with no money is an example of a pauper.
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- While the phrase convenient for you is much the more common of the two, it could be that convenient to you is more likely to be used with this second sense. Here are some examples from a quick search: 1  Call the office most convenient to you. 2  Choose a venue convenient to you.3  Kindly select a branch convenient to you.he impersonal expression it is convenient for you is 10 times more common (151,000) in Bing than it is convenient to you (15,000). The corresponding negative expressions have similar proportions: for - 4,000 as against to-a mere 13.
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Peasant Modern Western writers often continue to use the term peasant for Chinese farmers, typically without ever defining what the term means. This Western use of the term suggests that China is stagnant, medieval, underdeveloped, and held back by its rural population.