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peasants
[pez-uhnt] 
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peasant
[pez-uhnt]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farmer |
| Synonyms: | boor, bumpkin, countryman/woman, cropper, farmhand, hayseed, hick, hired hand, laborer, peon, planter, provincial, rube, rustic, serf, sharecropper, villein |
| Main Entry: | churl |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rude and ill-bred, a boor; person overly concerned with saving money |
| Synonyms: | beast, chuff, clodhopper, miser, mucker, niggard, oaf, peasant, provincial, rustic, tightwad, yokel |
| Main Entry: | clown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid, ignorant person |
| Synonyms: | blockhead, boor, bucolic, buffoon, bumpkin, chuff, churl, clodhopper, gawk, hayseed, hick, hind, jake, lout, mucker, oaf, peasant, rube, rustic, swain, yahoo, yokel |
| Main Entry: | farmer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who produces crops, raises animals |
| Synonyms: | agriculturalist, agriculturist, agronomist, breeder, clodhopper, cob, country person, cropper, cultivator, feeder, gardener, gleaner, grazer, grower, harvester, hired hand, homesteader, horticulturist, laborer, peasant, planter, plower, producer, rancher, reaper, sharecropper, sower, tender, tiller, villein |
| Main Entry: | peon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | menial worker |
| Synonyms: | drudge, farm worker, farmhand, gopher, laborer, peasant, serf, servant, slave, unskilled laborer |
| Main Entry: | plebeian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person of lower class |
| Synonyms: | common people, commonalty, commoner, peasant, person in the street, pleb, plebe, proletarian, rank and file |
| Antonyms: | aristocrat, noble, patrician, rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | proletariat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working class |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar workers, bourgeoisie, common people, commoners, hoi polloi, lower class, peasant, plebians, proletarian, rank and file, working stiff |
| Main Entry: | rustic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person from the country, with little experience |
| Synonyms: | backwoodsperson, boor, country cousin, countryperson, farmer, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, mountaineer, peasant, provincial, redneck, rural, yokel |
| Antonyms: | city boy |
| Main Entry: | worker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is employed |
| Synonyms: | artisan, blue collar, breadwinner, company person, craftsperson, employee, hand, help, laborer, nine-to-fiver, operative, peasant, proletarian, serf, slave, stiff, toiler, trader, tradesperson, wage earner, white collar, working person, working stiff |
| Antonyms: | unemployed |
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