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peasant
has definitions from the fields of work,agriculture
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[ noun ] a country person
Synonyms Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)They are willing to settle , however , in anything that offers pheasants to shoot at and peasants to work_at . Though his character is broader and more comically rounded than the don , he gives it a firmness and toughness - a sort_of peasant dignity - too . There are other good representations of peasants and people of the court by actors who are finely costumed and magnificently photographed in this last of the Russian films to reach this country in the program of joint cultural exchange . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)An occasional traveler from Italy brought news of Peter_Robert , who was now distributing his Bible among the Waldensian peasants . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Peasants puzzled Andrei . |
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[ noun ] (work,agriculture) one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
Used in print (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)This comes_out in `` When_the_Bells_Ring '' , which describes the rallying of the peasants in southern Sweden to repel an invasion by the Danes . Related terms |
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