Peasant vs Village - What's the difference?
peasant | village |
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
A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
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, title= (British) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
(Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
As nouns the difference between peasant and village
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 village is a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.peasant
English
(wikipedia peasant)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (lowly social class ) peon, serf * churl * (country person ) rustic, villager * (crude person ) boorDerived terms
* peasantryAnagrams
*village
English
(wikipedia village)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages .}}
