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peasant

[pez-uhnt] / ˈpɛz ənt /


NOUN
a uneducated, rural person
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“It’s like reading an old English novel when you’re the peasant, and you’re not recognized.”

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026

In long, meandering speeches laced with peasant folklore, Museveni often appeals for more time, likening himself to a farmer leaving a plantation just as it starts bearing fruit.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

This party traces its ideological roots to a 1946 peasant uprising in the southern state of Telangana.

From BBC • May 27, 2025

Now, it seemed, Russia itself was being portrayed as a ‘primitive’ society, lodged in the Western mind as an archaic peasant culture.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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