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peasant

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1. peasant - Noun

2. peasant - Adjective

Meaning

A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

Rustic, rural.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. John Updike

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. Gertrude Stein

You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields. Saddam Hussein

If the peasant doesn't hear the thunder he won't make the sign of the cross. Russian Proverb

Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force. Spanish Proverb

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. Russian Proverb

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