peasant
noun
[ ˈpɛz(ə)nt ]
• a poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).
• "peasants left the farms to work in industry"
Similar:
agricultural worker,
small farmer,
rustic,
son of the soil,
countryman,
countrywoman,
farmhand,
swain,
villein,
serf,
paysan,
muzhik,
kulak,
campesino,
paisano,
contadino,
fellah,
ryot,
carl,
cottier,
kern,
hind,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French paisent ‘country dweller’, from pais ‘country’, based on Latin pagus ‘country district’.
