PEASANT

[noun] [C] - a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keeps animals, etc. on it, esp. one who has a low income, very little education and a low social position. This is usually used of someone who lived in the past or of someone in a poor country.Tons of internationally donated food was distributed to the starving peasants.In Mexico, hillside peasants use bullocks and horses to plough their fields and to carry the harvested crops.On each page are little pictures of medieval peasants carrying out everyday tasks.Most of the produce sold in the market is grown by peasant farmers.Peasant women with scarves around their heads were working in the fields.Peasant is also used to refer to things considered typical of peasants.peasant foodpeasant artpeasant traditions(informal disapproving) A peasant is a person who is not well educated or is rude and does not behave well.Joe's a real peasant.You peasant! [as form of address]