Peasant vs. Serf

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.

Serfnoun

A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.

Serfnoun

A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.

Serfnoun

(strategy games) A worker unit.

Serfnoun

A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.

Serfnoun

(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord