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Freeholder vs Peasant - What's the difference?

freeholder | peasant |

As nouns the difference between freeholder and peasant

is that freeholder is a person who holds tenure by freehold 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.

freeholder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who holds tenure by freehold
  • peasant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • Synonyms

    * (lowly social class ) peon, serf * churl * (country person ) rustic, villager * (crude person ) boor

    Derived terms

    * peasantry

    Anagrams

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