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Peasant vs Commoner - What's the difference?

peasant | commoner |

As nouns the difference between peasant and commoner

is that 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 while commoner is a member of the common people who holds no title or rank.

As an adjective commoner is

comparative of common.

peasant

English

(wikipedia 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

    *

    commoner

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (common)
    • Usage notes
    * The potential for confusion with use of the noun as an adjective, especially in the UK, makes this form less desirable. It is much less commonly used than "more common".

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (wikipedia commoner) (en noun)
  • A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
  • (British) Someone who is not of noble rank.
  • * Hallam
    • All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners , and in the eye of the law equal to each other.
  • (British, at Oxbridge universities) An undergraduate who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition.
  • (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.
  • Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Much good land might be gained from forests and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.
  • (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
    • (Fuller)
  • (obsolete) A prostitute.
    • (Shakespeare)