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Definition of Peasant
Peasant

A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

Rustic, rural.

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Peasant Quotations

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
James E. Jones

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
Henry David Thoreau

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Gertrude Stein

Peasant Translations

peasant in Dutch is boer, landman, plattelander
peasant in Latin is paganus
peasant in Norwegian is bonde
peasant in Swedish is bonde


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