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used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing — especially one who raises crops or livestock- Most people in the Middle Ages were peasants.
peasants = an historical term describing people of low income, education, and social standing
- In 1932 a peasant revolt in Su County China stopped collection of the poppy tax.
- Serfs were the lowest class of peasants.
- ...he said angrily (unaware of the irony that he, a prince, had a right to anger, and the old man, a peasant, did not).John Gardner -- Grendel
- and watched the motorbuses come in and unload peasants from the country coming in to the market,Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
- He'd leave peasant huts full of malnourished babies and, arriving in Miami Airport, overhear well-dressed people talk about their efforts to lose weight.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- they treat the peasants like animalsAnton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard
- Is the land there owned by the peasants?Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Not many intellectuals are prepared to shovel manure with the peasants and then go home and write a "little book" called War and Peace.Athol Fugard -- Master Harold...and the Boys
- Several other travellers were before them on the bridge, mostly peasants driving laden donkeys and mules or carrying baskets on their heads.C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy
- He doesn't want to see peasants. Let him go to centres of culture and civilization.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- "I am a peasant," I said to myself, "and not a geisha at all any longer."Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Our peasants are hard and cunning when they bargain.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- He was disguised as a woman, and appeared to be a simple old peasant goodwife.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Parish clerks, teachers, and one in a thousand of the peasants, maybe, know what it's all about.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- peasants greeted them along the roads in the country;James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- It was at this shop, working like a peasant, that I met Clifford St. Clair.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- Oh, you know the stories that the peasants tell about a phantom hound, and so on.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- But you know, peasants live there, real rude Russian peasants.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- Now I see peasants in the field.Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
peasant = an historical term describing people of low income, education, and social standing
peasants = an historical term describing people of low income, education, and social standing
peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing — especially those who raise crops or livestock
peasant = used historically and sometimes in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing — especially one who raises crops or livestock
peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing
peasants = poor farmers
peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing — especially those who raise crops or livestock
peasants = persons of low income, education, and social standing (used historically to primarily describe those who raised crops or livestock)
peasants = uneducated farmers
peasant = a person of low income, education, and social standing
peasants = uneducated farmers
peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing — especially those who raise crops or livestock
peasants = people of low income, education, and social standing — especially those who raise crops or livestock
peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
peasants = a person of low income, education, and social standing — especially one who raises crops or livestock
peasants = a person of low income, education, and social standing — especially one who raises crops or livestock (used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country)
peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing — especially those who raise crops or livestock