| Main Entry: | peasant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farmer |
Synonyms: |
boor, bumpkin, countryman/woman, cropper, farmhand, hayseed, hick, hired hand, laborer, peon, planter, provincial, rube, rustic, serf, sharecropper, villein |
| Main Entry: | agrarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning land, farming |
Synonyms: |
agricultural, natural, peasant, rural, rustic, uncultivated, undomesticated |
| Main Entry: | boor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clod |
Synonyms: |
barbarian, bear, boob*, brute, buffoon, cad, churl, dork, goon, lout, oaf, peasant, philistine, rube, vulgarian |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
Antonyms: |
charmer, enthusiast, exciter |
| Main Entry: | churl |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rude and ill-bred, a boor; person overly concerned with saving money |
Synonyms: |
beast, chuff, clodhopper, miser, mucker, niggard, oaf, peasant, provincial, rustic, tightwad, yokel |
| Main Entry: | clown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid, ignorant person |
Synonyms: |
blockhead, boor, bucolic, buffoon, bumpkin, chuff, churl, clodhopper, gawk, hayseed, hick, hind, jake, lout, mucker, oaf, peasant, rube, rustic, swain, yahoo, yokel |
| Main Entry: | farmer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who produces crops, raises animals |
Synonyms: |
agriculturalist, agriculturist, agronomist, breeder, clodhopper, cob, country person, cropper, cultivator, feeder, gardener, gleaner, grazer, grower, harvester, hired hand, homesteader, horticulturist, laborer, peasant, planter, plower, producer, rancher, reaper, sharecropper, sower, tender, tiller, villein |
| Main Entry: | ignoble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, unworthy |
Synonyms: |
abject, base, baseborn, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, craven, dastardly, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, humble, infamous, inferior, lewd, low, mean, menial, modest, ordinary, peasant, petty, plain, plebeian, poor, rotten, scurvy, servile, shabby, shameful, simple, sordid, unwashed, vile, vulgar, wicked, wretched, wrong |
Antonyms: |
dignified, grand, high, honorable, noble, reputable, respectable, worthy |
| Main Entry: | peon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | menial worker |
Synonyms: |
drudge, farm worker, farmhand, gopher, laborer, peasant, serf, servant, slave, unskilled laborer |
| Main Entry: | plebeian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person of lower class |
Synonyms: |
common people, commonalty, commoner, peasant, person in the street, pleb, plebe, proletarian, rank and file |
Antonyms: |
aristocrat, noble, patrician, rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | proletariat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working class |
Synonyms: |
blue-collar workers, bourgeoisie, common people, commoners, hoi polloi, lower class, peasant, plebians, proletarian, rank and file, working stiff |