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Peasant vs Swain - What's the difference?

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Peasant is a synonym of swain.


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.

As a proper noun swain is

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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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    swain

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A young man or boy in service; a servant.
  • (obsolete) A knight's servant; an attendant.
  • (archaic) A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.
  • (poetic) A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * *

    Anagrams

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