as in clown
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 peasant
Loyal to the Emperor, scornful of the aristocracy, and sympathetic to the peasants’ desire for liberation, if not their bloodlust, he is torn between medieval chivalry and modern self-preservation.
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Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
These stories range from a church restorer preserving the past, to young biologists in love, to a young man transforming a luxury resort into a vegetable garden, and a struggling peasant fighting to make ends meet.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
Model Alex Consani wore that haute couture look, made up of an ivory silk faille circle cloak with an oversize ruff collar, a black gazar top, a cream peasant blouse, and bloomers, with a black felt and gold lamé headpiece and bright teal silk moiré sandals covered in pearls and studs.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
In those intervening 35 years, China had moved 800 million rural peasants — living in extreme poverty on US$2 a day — into city apartments and integrated them into the global economy.
—Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasant
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Brewer depicts the world of music impersonators with a fair amount of affection, like the rodeo clowns of late 20th-century America.—
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Cirque du Soleil is known for its shows featuring acrobats, athletes and clowns – all doing spectacular feats.—
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Sanders is a Catholic priest and former Augustinian provincial in California and lives in the Augustinian community in North Park.—
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The same year, he was appointed as a provincial for the order.—
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Soon there was an altercation at the front desk, when a Haitian upbraided the American peons about not getting her free stuff fast enough.—
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Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.—
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Carrie raves to Seema about her creative connection with Duncan, and during another writing session, Duncan helps Carrie with her faulty printer and gawks at her closet full of designer dresses and shoes.—
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Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.—
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An experienced mountaineer, Michelle Yu, also fell to her death in 2011 after poor weather rolled into the area.—
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The search quickly expanded to include other search and rescue professionals, mountaineers and aircraft with thermal imaging.—
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Other trending styles including quiet luxury, European rustic, and warm minimalism.—
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Places to Stay Hotels Ten Bits Ranch Brower loves staying at this rustic, family-friendly lodging in Terlingua, just 20 minutes north of the park’s west entrance.—
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“Peasant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasant. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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