What does peasant mean?
Word: Peasant
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Peasant means a poor farmer who works a small piece of land, especially in earlier times or in old stories.
Synonyms: farmer, labourer
Antonyms: landlord, noble
How do you spell peasant?
Syllables: peas - ant
Tricky part: The first part is peas, with ea, though it is said like pez.
Watch out for: pesant, peazant, pezant
Memory tip: Peasant starts with peas, like the green peas a farmer grows in his field.
Peasant in a sentence
Example 1: In the folk tale, a clever peasant outwits the greedy king.
Example 2: The peasants gathered the rice harvest before the rains.
Example 3: Our history chapter describes how peasants paid taxes in grain.
Fun Fact
Peasant comes from the Old French paisant, a person of the countryside, from pais, meaning land or country.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) tractar
b) cottege
c) harvist
d) peasant
Show answer
d) peasant. Harvest ends in est, cottage in age and tractor in or.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: peasant
a) trader
b) villager
c) courtier
d) soldier
Show answer
b) villager. A peasant lived and farmed in a village; traders, soldiers and courtiers did other work.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
peas_n_
a) a, d
b) a, t
c) i, t
d) e, t
Show answer
b) a, t. Peasant ends in ant, like servant.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The peasant carried a heavy basket of mangoes to the market in the next vilage.
a) peasant
b) basket
c) vilage
d) mangoes
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c) vilage. Village has a double l: vil-lage.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In old times, most peasants earned their living by ____.
a) trading goods in the city market
b) growing rice, wheat or millet
c) weaving cloth in big factories
d) working as cooks in the palace
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b) growing rice, wheat or millet
2. Which of these would a peasant in an old story most likely own?
a) a fleet of trading ships
b) a few goats and a plough
c) a palace with many servants
d) a large library of books
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b) a few goats and a plough
