Farmer vs. Peasant

Farmernoun

A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.

Farmernoun

Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.

Farmernoun

(historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

Farmernoun

The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Farmernoun

One who farms

Farmernoun

a person who operates a farm

Farmernoun

United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

Farmernoun

an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)

Farmernoun

a person who owns or manages a farm.

Farmernoun

a person to whom the collection of taxes was contracted for a fee.

Farmer

A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock.

Peasantnoun

A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.

Peasantnoun

A country person.

Peasantnoun

(pejorative) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

Peasantnoun

(strategy games) A worker unit.

Peasantnoun

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

Peasantadjective

Rustic, rural.

Peasantnoun

a country person

Peasantnoun

one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

Peasantnoun

a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

Peasantnoun

a poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries)

Peasantnoun

an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person

Peasant

A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: slave, serf, and free tenant.