All 4 Uses
peasant
in
Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
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- We aren't ignorant peasants!†
p. 77.8peasants = 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
- To her I was a coarse, common girl, a peasant.†
p. 105.9
- A hair from some peasant's head in Hasnapur could travel across oceans and save an American meteorologist's reputation.†
p. 152.9 *
- He, a Saigon sophisticate, thinks of them as illiterate mountain people, peasants.†
p. 220.3peasants = 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(peasant) 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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)