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/ˈpezənt/
A peasant was a poor farmer who worked a small piece of land, especially in past centuries in Europe or Asia, often without owning the land themselves. Today the word is mostly used to talk about history, or about poor farmers in other countries. Be careful: calling a modern person a "peasant" as an insult, meaning unrefined or low-class, is rude - it isn't a neutral, polite word to use about people now.
(歷史) 農民、佃農；(貶) 粗俗的人。
複數 peasants
組成From Old French "paisant," meaning someone who lives in the countryside ("pays").
同家族的字
- pagancomes from the same old root meaning 'a person from the countryside'
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
peasantnoun/ˈpɛzənt/
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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.
- The Ambassador warned him of the consequences if his mission to Moscow were a failure, both to Churchill's position at home and to Russia's prospects in the war. He insisted that he should not allow himself to be offended 'by a peasant who didn't know any better'. Churchill listened in silence, then returned to the dacha leaving Clark Kerr outside.
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A country person.
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derogatoryAn uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
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A worker unit.
peasantadj/ˈpɛzənt/
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Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
- peasant class
- 2007, Brad Bird, Ratatouille, spoken by Colette Ratatouille? It's a peasant dish. Are you sure you want to serve this to Ego?
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derogatoryobsoleteLowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.
- Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slave am I?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。