Servant vs Peasant - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between servant and peasant

is that servant is one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave 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.

As a verb servant

is to subject.

servant

English

Alternative forms

* servaunt (obsolete) * (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.

*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

One who serves another, providing help in some manner.

Derived terms

* assigned servant * civil servant * manservant * maidservant * public servant * servantly

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To subject.

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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