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  Peasant \Peas"ant\, n. [OF. pa["i]sant (the i being perh. due to
     confusion with the p. pr. of verbs), pa["i]san, F. paysan,
     fr. OF. & F. pays country, fr. L. pagus the country. See
     Pagan.]
     A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class
     of tillers of the soil in European countries.
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     Syn: Countryman; rustic; swain; hind.
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  Peasant \Peas"ant\, a.
     Rustic, rural. --Spenser.
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  peasant
      n 1: a country person [syn: peasant, provincial, bucolic]
      2: one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
      3: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
         [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth,
         tyke, tike]

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "peasant":
     Babbitt, Bauer, Philistine, agriculturalist, agriculturist,
     agrologist, agronomist, arriviste, boor, bounder, bourgeois,
     bucolic, bumpkin, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, clown,
     coffee-planter, collective farm worker, country, country bumpkin,
     countryman, countrywoman, crofter, cropper, cultivator,
     dirt farmer, dry farmer, epicier, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand,
     fellah, galoot, gentleman farmer, granger, groundling, grower,
     guttersnipe, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, hayseed, hick, hind,
     hooligan, husbandman, ill-bred fellow, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik,
     kulak, looby, lout, low fellow, lump, mucker, muzhik,
     nouveau riche, oaf, parvenu, peasant holder, peon, picker, planter,
     plowboy, plowman, provincial, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper,
     ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, serf,
     sharecropper, sower, swain, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller,
     tree farmer, truck farmer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yeoman,
     yokel