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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
peasant
/ˈpɛzənt/
noun
a person of low social status, usually who works on a farm
- “What the peasant does not know, he does not eat.”Tatoeba
- “In that village, peasants often shared their harvests to survive.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)