1. A country person
   "The peasant tended his small plot of land";
   - provincial, bucolic
    
2. One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural labourers
   "The medieval peasant worked the lord's land in exchange for protection"
    
3. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
   "His rude behaviour at the dinner party revealed him to be a peasant";
   - barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke [informal], tike [informal]

Derived forms: peasants

Type of: agricultural laborer [US], agricultural labourer [Brit, Cdn], disagreeable person, rustic, unpleasant person

Part of: peasantry

Encyclopedia: Peasant