PEASANT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for PEASANT?

Need another word that means the same as “peasant”? Find 24 synonyms and 30 related words for “peasant” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Peasant” are: barbarian, boor, churl, goth, tike, tyke, bucolic, provincial, small farmer, rustic, son of the soil, countryman, countrywoman, farmhand, swain, villein, serf, lout, oaf, clown, yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin, village idiot

Peasant as a Noun

Definitions of "Peasant" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “peasant” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• An ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person.
• A poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries.
• One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers.
• A country person.
• A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.

Synonyms of "Peasant" as a noun (24 Words)

barbarian	An uncultured or brutish person. You arrogant barbarian.
boor	A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement. At last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner.
bucolic	A pastoral poem.
bumpkin	An unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside. She thought Tom a bit of a country bumpkin.
churl	A miser. This trio are used whenever some churl wants to have a pop at progressive rock.
clown	A comic entertainer, especially one in a circus, wearing a traditional costume and exaggerated make-up. A circus clown.
country bumpkin	A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography.
countryman	A man who lives in the country and has country ways. They trust a fellow countryman.
countrywoman	A man who lives in the country and has country ways. She was a countrywoman through and through.
farmhand	A hired hand on a farm.
goth	One of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries.
lout	An uncouth and aggressive man or boy. He ended up brawling with a lout outside a curry house.
oaf	An awkward stupid person. They are just big clumsy oafs.
provincial	(Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order. The general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials.
rustic	An unsophisticated country person. They paused to watch the rustics dance and carouse.
serf	A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
small farmer	The slender part of the back.
son of the soil	A male human offspring.
swain	A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
tike	A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
tyke	A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement. Tyke hockey.
village idiot	A mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village’ became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century.
villein	(in medieval England) a feudal tenant entirely subject to a lord or manor to whom he paid dues and services in return for land.
yokel	An uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside.

Usage Examples of "Peasant" as a noun

• ‘That is a civilized drink, you peasant.
• Peasant farmers.
• Peasants left the farms to work in industry.

Associations of "Peasant" (30 Words)

agrarian	Relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land. An agrarian or agricultural society.
agricultural	Relating to farming or agriculture. An agricultural worker.
agriculture	A large-scale farming enterprise.
botanist	An expert in or student of the scientific study of plants. A botanist announced he d bred a new and beautiful variety of orchid.
bucolic	A country person. A pleasant bucolic scene.
countryside	The inhabitants of countryside areas. They explored the surrounding countryside.
cowhand	A person employed to tend cattle or to run a ranch.
crop	Prepare for crops. She has her hair cut in a short crop.
cultivator	A person or thing that cultivates something. Rotary cultivators are ideal in the kitchen garden.
farmer	A person to whom the collection of taxes was contracted for a fee.
farmhouse	House for a farmer and family. A farmhouse kitchen.
farming	Relating to farming or agriculture. Sheep farming.
gardener	Someone employed to work in a garden. I m a keen gardener.
harvest	Gather a crop as a harvest. They gathered a harvest of examples.
idyll	An episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll. The rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies.
intelligentsia	An educated and intellectual elite. The belief that the liberal intelligentsia is ruining the country.
laity	In Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy.
peon	A Spanish American day labourer or unskilled farm worker. The elder son is a peon at a nearby school.
provincial	Local newspapers, as contrasted with national ones. In that well educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial.
rancher	A person who owns or operates a ranch.
reaper	Someone who helps to gather the harvest.
rural	In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town. Large rural households.
rustic	Awkwardly simple and provincial. Rustic pottery.
scythe	Cut with a scythe. You may want hardy infantry troops to scythe down the opposition.
serf	(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
serfdom	The state of a serf. The liberation of the peasants from serfdom.
shopkeeper	A merchant who owns or manages a shop.
vassalage	The state of a serf.
vendible	Fit to be offered for sale.
yeoman	A member of the yeomanry force.