peasant Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a country person
    bucolic; provincial.
  2. noun one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
  3. noun a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
    Goth; boor; tyke; barbarian; churl; tike.

WordNet

Peas"ant noun
Etymology
OF. païsant (the i being perh. due to confusion with the p.pr. of verbs), païsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays country, fr. L. pagus the country. See Pagan.
Definitions
  1. A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind.
Peas"ant adjective
Definitions
  1. Rustic, rural. Spenser.

Webster 1913