Rustic vs Peasant - What's the difference?
rustic | peasant | Synonyms |
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
* (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
Unfinished or roughly finished.
Crude, rough.
Simple; artless; unaffected.
* (Alexander Pope)
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Our rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
* 1906 — (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Ch IX
* 1927-29' — (Mahatma Gandhi), '', Part V, The Stain of Indigo'', translated ' 1940 by (Mahadev Desai)
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
Peasant is a synonym of rustic.
As nouns the difference between rustic and peasant
is that rustic is a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area 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 an adjective rustic
is country-styled or pastoral; rural.rustic
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustiqueAdjective
(en adjective)- She had a rustic , woodland air.
Derived terms
* rustic moth * rustic workQuotations
{{timeline, 1700s=17??, 1800s=1818 1820}} * late 1700s — (Robert Burns), *: The Princely revel may surveyOur rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
Noun
(en noun)- The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics .