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What does peasant mean?
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peasant

A peasant is a poor agricultural worker in the countryside.

peasant

a country person one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

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Simple sentences

I am nothing but a poor peasant.
My father is a peasant.
The prince fell in love with a simple peasant girl and married her.
Early in the morning, a peasant, who was passing by, saw what had happened. He broke the ice in pieces with his wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. The warmth revived the poor little creature.
Once upon a time there was a peasant whose wife died, leaving him with two children-twins-a boy and a girl.
Once upon a time there was a peasant whose wife died, leaving him with two children.
A peasant like me surely would be lost in a city so big.
A few miles from the Tontlawald was a large village, where dwelt a peasant who had recently married a young wife.
The king exchanged his baby, a beautiful boy, for the daughter of a peasant, and the prince lived roughly as the son of poor people, while the little girl slept in a golden cradle, under silken sheets.
He knew a young peasant maid.
The peasant reaps the harvest.
If the thunder isn't roaring, the peasant won't cross himself.
Rasputin was born a peasant in the small village of Pokrovskoye in Russia.

Movie subtitles

Finally he stooped to courting at night just as peasant lads did.
As to Johannes, you are too ambitious to be a peasant.
For the peasant, bread is sacred.
I cannot live like a peasant in those places where I drown, at those tiny man-to-man houses that are like his own cattle.
Peter, you are the dearest village peasant.
Forward, peasant folk, now it's our turn to hit the Germans!
The ancient music with which your peasant ancestors. celebrated every wedding for countless generations. The dance they danced when your father married your mother. always supposing you were born in wedlock, which I doubt.
He has just been here. to see me, our peasant priest. dripping with good fellowship and very careful of his manner.
You act like a peasant.
You big peasant.
Peasant.
Thanks, peasant.
For a peasant?
Whether you are a gentleman, or a peasant.
Did you see how the peasant treated me?
Each peasant will pay 5O pennies. Those who do not have the money will pay in produce.
The fact that we are not satisfied with peasant girls and maidens, with merchants' daughters and hussies, that we choose the finest and prettiest, is a proof of our taste.
Still a peasant, Ivan, huh?
There is a barefoot peasant, to the village oaf.
The costume, an exact replica of the holiday clothes worn by the Hungarian peasant women.
I will be here after you are gone, Mr. Peasant.
When a royal banquet is spread before you you do not pounce upon it like any peasant.
Is this the peasant you were going to fight with your left hand?
I would rather have been a poor peasant, with my wife by my side knitting as the day died out of the sky with my children upon my knee and their arms about me.
PEASANT 2: Goodbye.
PEASANT 3: Good luck, Count.
Besides, the idea of a peasant dining at their bourgeois table. exasperated them both.
Some old peasant superstition.
Your strength, the earthiness of your peasant stock.
Whether you are a gentleman, as you say, or a peasant, as I say.
I saw that peasant woman suddenly crossing herself.
Fair princess, most noble princes, I bring greetings from a humble peasant.
All we know is that a Greek peasant found her in a cave. and sold her to the French government for 6,000 francs.
Why not just call me a peasant?
No, Mrs. Cronyn. You are not dealing with a superstitious peasant.

News and current affairs

If the Bank provides grants to poor countries to help small peasant farmers gain access to improved inputs, then it will be possible for those countries to increase their food production in a short period of time.
Some months ago Poland faced a wave of peasant strikes.
Peasant farmers need the benefits of fertilizer, irrigation, and high-yield seeds, all of which were a core part of China's economic takeoff.
It needs investments to shift away from a dependence on a donor-driven agenda and peasant-driven agriculture, and learn to compete on a global level.
In previous societies, one's status as a peasant, artisan, or merchant often defined one totally.
Indeed, those laid off generally do not return to peasant life, but become urban entrepreneurs in the service industries of China's new cities.
When drought comes to Southern Africa, as it has this year, tens of millions of impoverished peasant families struggle for survival.
The Chinese myth of success was the bright peasant boy whose village clubbed together to educate him and whose subsequent success resulted in the elevation of all who had helped him on his way into the civil service.
When US-led forces overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003, far too little effort was made to understand how a peasant tyrant like Saddam was able to seize power and hold it for so long.
Peasant farmers, parliamentarians, civil-society groups, and institutional actors have come together in similar ways elsewhere - including in Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico - to demand legal protections against hunger.
Today, we do not fear primitive populism or peasant protests; we should, however, begin to fear for the future of Polish democracy, indeed for all the postcommunist democracies.
Like everyone else, our peasants vote their fears and choose as their representatives the peasant parties who think that political stalemate is the only way to preserve Poland's rural way of life.
You can deplore such social feelings, as I do, but the myth of the Polish peasant hero standing against communist collectivization on his small private plot seems ineradicable, even if it is undeserved.
First, special efforts should be made to boost peasant agriculture and rural communities.
Peasant farmers in Africa, Haiti, and other impoverished regions currently plant their crops without the benefit of high-yield seed varieties and fertilizers.
The drivers of both the tractor and the metallic-silver luxury car were 45-year-old women, but any similarity between them ended there: the former was a peasant, the latter the wife of a wealthy businessman.
After a confrontation between the two, the wealthy wife drove her BMW into the growing crowd of spectators on the roadside, killing the peasant woman and injuring 12 others.
Reports on peasant and worker demonstrations against corrupt officials and illegal property confiscations have been banned.
According to Diamonds and Clubs, a recent report from Partnership Africa Canada, soldiers have press-ganged peasant farmers into working in mining syndicates at Marange.
A peasant in the Yangtze Valley in the late seventeenth century had a different style of life than his or her contemporary peasant in the Thames Valley, but not one that was clearly better or worse.
Chen, a blind peasant and self-taught lawyer, had protested in 2005 against the kidnapping of some 3000 women in his hometown of Linyi.
Party leaders may not become sufficiently attuned to the needs of China's people to respond to problems like corruption, environmental degradation, or peasant unrest before crises make them unsolvable.
To be sure, Nkhoma's ideas about how to transform the lives of peasant farmers in Africa are not new.

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