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Meanings of peasant in English
Synonyms
Examples for "barbarian"
Examples for "barbarian"
1
The barbarian was the proverbial bull in the china-shop of western Europe.
2
I'm using units of meters per second because I'm not a barbarian.
3
I'm afraid your guests must have thought me quite the barbarian, Cathy.
4
Happiness in these things is the legacy to us of the barbarian.
5
He fits in well, Tanis thought as he watched the barbarian work.
1
In the midst of the smoke, the young boor recognized Godfather Stringstriker.
2
We've seen this swaggering, falsely confident boor at least once too often.
3
She is by this time in the hands of that insensible boor.
4
The city people despise it as the food of a Fellah-a boor.
5
In an elegant plutocracy, a jealous husband is regarded as a boor.
1
My heart lurched with anger; the churl might have lowered his voice.
2
In that case I cannot be such a churl as to refuse.
3
I should be a churl if I did not tell you so.
4
But he is a mannerless churl, we will not think of him.
5
My kinswoman could have received no greater kindness at the churl's hands.
1
And then a young man always knows when he can tyke advantage.
2
Back then, he was a wee tyke, barely into the double digits.
3
Weel, there was a bit tyke i' the kirkyaird twa days syne.
4
If it does, then the little tyke usually can get a drink.
5
Why, 'e'd fire on a nurse or an ambulanche, that tyke would.
1
I don't tike you going with a stranger, under the circumstances.
2
Just set one gentleman down, and 'appy to tike another up.
3
First, he didn't need a couple of wise-ass kids tike us ruining his business.
4
But you should learn to tike the larger view.
5
Tom remembered seeing those green walls forming around him, flying together tike pieces of clouds.
1
Such were the emotions now awakened in the heart of the Goth.
2
Totila, the Goth, laid the city of Benevento in ruins, in 545.
3
The Goth Jornandes calls the North of Europe the forge of mankind.
4
She didn't really feel like sightseeing -thatwasn't a Goth thing, right?
5
You have lost your little Goth; of that I need no assurance.
Usage of peasant in English
1
Yes, my father would love a peasant free miner as a daughter-in-law.
2
In fact, in the woman there is something non-peasant in its origin.
3
The Tsar Archidei liked the simple answer of the peasant, and said:
4
Yes; to the home of a peasant about six miles from here.
5
Katrina arose with the natural dignity of the peasant of the North.
6
There was plenty of fresh water, plenty of farms and peasant huts.
7
In fact it was a peasant state more like Russia than Prussia.
8
They made the peasant Lara knock; his own brother opened the door.
9
In Jeppe the peasant of the eighteenth-century Sjaelland lives for all time.
10
He had many of the limitations of the peasant and the priest.
11
The old peasant bade the children good-by with tears in her eyes.
12
The peasant Frolichard was already dozing in a corner by the fire.
13
He who elevates the peasant will also in time elevate the prince.
14
The peasant listened in amazement to the story that they told him.
15
German sectaries and mystics fared on garbed in their simple peasant dress.
16
I once did see how they flogged a peasant in the village.
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Translations for peasant
Peasant through the time
Peasant across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common