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a person of low social status
Those snobs treat anyone who lives on the "wrong" side of town like an insignificant peasant.
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Recent Examples of peasants
The painting shows a lush, verdant Italian landscape, whose richness allows even peasants to enjoy leisurely strolls along its paths.
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Tyler Green, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
And that was to inspire, raise, and command armies of European Christians, including kings, commoners and peasants, to invade the Holy Land and free it from Muslim occupation.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
His paternal grandparents were peasants in Transylvania; his maternal grandparents were also peasants, and his grandmother was illiterate.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
The peasants looked different, weathered.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Its artworks, like Michelangelo's Pieta, have been known to make peasants and popes weep.
—Chris Livesay, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
Müntzer’s teachings helped provoke the widespread uprising of the German peasants in 1525, and have served as a kind of progenitor inspiration for later communist thinkers, from Friedrich Engels to Ernst Bloch.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
This meant people on foot—peasants, in other words.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026
Let the peasants squabble amongst themselves about the refs and how unfair life is.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
Tyler Green, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
And that was to inspire, raise, and command armies of European Christians, including kings, commoners and peasants, to invade the Holy Land and free it from Muslim occupation.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
His paternal grandparents were peasants in Transylvania; his maternal grandparents were also peasants, and his grandmother was illiterate.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
The peasants looked different, weathered.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Its artworks, like Michelangelo's Pieta, have been known to make peasants and popes weep.
—Chris Livesay, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
Müntzer’s teachings helped provoke the widespread uprising of the German peasants in 1525, and have served as a kind of progenitor inspiration for later communist thinkers, from Friedrich Engels to Ernst Bloch.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
This meant people on foot—peasants, in other words.
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026
Let the peasants squabble amongst themselves about the refs and how unfair life is.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasants
Noun
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The four paintings are Joan Miró’s Composition (1953), Maurice Utrillo’s Maison de rendez-vous de chasse de Henri IV, rue Saint-Vincent, Montmartre (1934), Balthus’s Etude pour femme couchée (1948), and Pablo Picasso’s L’Ecuyere et les clowns (1961).—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
6 May 2026
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Once completed, the $5 million acquisition will ensure the theater has a permanent home, a place where skateboarding clowns and leek-haired onions can continue to frolic and dance for decades to come.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Marlowe, the son of a poor Canterbury cobbler, and Shakespeare, the son of a Stratford glover and alderman, were both unlikely artistic geniuses, provincials in a nation in which social class was rigidly fixed.—
Heller McAlpin,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The film follows both the mountaineers caught in the storm and the rescue teams racing against time to save them.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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Western climbers have declined due to rising travel costs and geopolitical tensions, but Asian mountaineers have surged this season after China shuttered its route to the peak.—
Binaj Gurubacharya,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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“Peasants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasants. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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