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Peasant vs Laborer - What's the difference?

peasant | laborer |

As nouns the difference between peasant and laborer

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 laborer is one who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

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

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    laborer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * labourer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly.

    • Related terms

    * laborist