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ignoble | peasant |

As an adjective ignoble

is not noble; plebeian; common.

As a noun 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.

ignoble

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not noble; plebeian; common.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I was not ignoble of descent.
  • Not honorable; base.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A base, ignoble mind, / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
  • * Gray
  • far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
  • Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.
  • Synonyms

    * (common) common, plebeian, vulgar * (not honorable) degenerate, mean, base, despicable, dishonorable, reproachful, shameful, disgraceful, vile

    Antonyms

    * (common) noble * (not honorable) noble, honorable

    Derived terms

    * ignobility * ignobleness * ignobly

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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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