as in clown
a person of low social status
Those snobs treat anyone who lives on the "wrong" side of town like an insignificant peasant.
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Recent Examples of peasant
In El Salvador in the 1960s, Todd writes, peasants and workers joined with progressive Catholics and intellectuals to push against the country’s oligarchic rulers, known as the fourteen families.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 Feb. 2025
The average Joe had to phone in their orders like some medieval peasant.
—Trent Hoerr, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot pursued his nation to the killing fields to create only one peasant class.
—Lynn Dewoskin Covarrubias, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
The film opens on a peasant couple summoning their son from a farm field.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 Feb. 2025
The average Joe had to phone in their orders like some medieval peasant.
—Trent Hoerr, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot pursued his nation to the killing fields to create only one peasant class.
—Lynn Dewoskin Covarrubias, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
The film opens on a peasant couple summoning their son from a farm field.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for peasant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasant
Noun
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Parsons called him a jealous clown, in so many words.—
Troy Renck,
The Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2025
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Who was the biggest Death of a Unicorn class clown?—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This removed one of the last obstacles preventing poor provincials from governing the empire.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
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While early imperial aristocrats saw provincials as subject nations with their own cultures, their working-class replacements considered Romans a single people and expected all to share the same values.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
19 Apr. 2024
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Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.—
Ashley Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2024
Noun
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Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024
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The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.—
John Phillips,
Car and Driver,
18 June 2020
Noun
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By then, Grace was known as one of the most accomplished mountaineers in Alaska.—
Cassidy Randall,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2025
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After Krakauer announced the YouTube series, a handful of prominent mountaineers and journalists voiced their support in the comments section on his Instagram page.—
Jayme Moye,
Outside Online,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Off-mountain: Skiers who prefer to stay overnight in nearby Driggs, Idaho (a 20-minute drive from Grand Targhee) have a few rustic, albeit comfortable, possibilities.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Dec. 2024
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Venues tend to lean rustic in much of Hillsborough County.—
Yacob Reyes,
Axios,
20 Dec. 2024
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“Peasant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasant. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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