peasant

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A country person.
  3. An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person. derogatory
  4. A worker unit.
形容词 adj.
  1. Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated. attributive,not-comparable
    — peasant class
  2. Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest. derogatory,not-comparable,obsolete
    — Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slave am I?

词形变化

peasants plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antipeasant nonpeasant peasant blouse peasantess peasanthood peasantish peasantism peasantist peasantize peasantless peasantlike peasantly peasantness peasantry peasantship peasant shirt peasant top peasantwear peasanty Russian peasant multiplication technopeasant

词源

词源 1
From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“countryside”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing"; which was an alteration of earlier Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”). Doublet of paisano.
Via Latin pāgus cognate with pagan (compare typologically, see there for more).
词源 2
From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“countryside”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing"; which was an alteration of earlier Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”). Doublet of paisano.
Via Latin pāgus cognate with pagan (compare typologically, see there for more).
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