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- pronunciation:
- pe
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer
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| definition 1: |
a member of the class of farm laborers and small farmers, esp. in Europe.
In feudal times, peasants worked the land but had no right to own it.
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| definition 2: |
an unsophisticated country person, or a person considered to be crude and unlearned.
What would a peasant like him know about art?- similar words:
- clodhopper, rustic
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| related words: |
yokel |
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