small peasant farm

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• peasant — [pez′ənt] n. [LME paissaunt < Anglo Fr paisant < MFr païsent < OFr < païs, country < LL pagensis, belonging to the district < pagus, district: see PAGAN] 1. any person of the class of small farmers or of farm laborers, as in… …   English World dictionary

• peasant — peasantlike, adj. /pez euhnt/, n. 1. a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank. 2. a coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person of little financial… …   Universalium

• peasant */ — UK [ˈpez(ə)nt] / US [ˈpezənt] noun [countable] Word forms peasant : singular peasant plural peasants 1) someone who works on another person s farm or on their own small farm. This word is used mainly about people in poor countries or people in… …   English dictionary

• peasant — peas|ant [ pezənt ] noun count * 1. ) someone who works on another person s farm or on their own small farm. This word is used mainly about people in poor countries or people in history: The majority of the population are landless peasants. a… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• peasant — peas•ant [[t]ˈpɛz ənt[/t]] n. 1) a member of a class of small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank, as in Europe, Asia, or Latin America 2) a coarse, uneducated person 3) of or characteristic of peasants or their way of life 4) clo modeled …   From formal English to slang

• peasant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. countryman; peon, paisano, paisana, coolie, boor, muzhik, fellah; farmer, laborer, worker; rustic. See populace, agriculture. Ant., noble, aristocrat. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. small farmer, rustic,… …   English dictionary for students

• peasant — [ˈpez(ə)nt] noun [C] a poor person who works on another person s farm or on their own small farm, especially in the past …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• Donghak Peasant Revolution — Hangul 동학농민운동 Hanja 東學農民運動 Revised Romanization …   Wikipedia

• Norwegian farm culture — The Norwegian farm culture (Norwegian: bondekultur) was a rural movement unique[citation needed] in values and practices which assumed a form in Viking Age Norway,[citation needed] and continued with little change into the age of firearms and in… …   Wikipedia

• Dehkan farm — A typical dehkan farm in Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan. A dehkan farm (Uzbek: деҳқон хўжаликлари, Tajik: хоҷагиҳои деҳқонӣ (фермерӣ), Turkmen: daýhan hojalyk, Russian: де …   Wikipedia

• land reform — any program, esp. when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless. [1840 50, Amer.] * * * Deliberate change in the way agricultural land is held or owned, the methods of its… …   Universalium