Farmer vs Peasant - What's the difference?
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A person who works the land or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
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Agent noun]] of farm; someone or something that [[farm#verb, farms.
(historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
(historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
A member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
A country person.
An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
(strategy games ) a worker unit
As nouns the difference between farmer and peasant
is that farmer is a person who works the land or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm while peasant is a member of the lowly social class which toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.farmer
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(wikipedia farmer)Noun
(en noun)citation
- a farmer of the revenues
