peasant

Other forms of peasant

plural

peasants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about peasant

What does peasant mean?

peasant means "a country person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peasant?

peasant has 2 syllables: peas-ant. The stress falls on "peas". In IPA it is /ˈpɛzənt/.

What is another word for peasant?

Close synonyms include provincial, bucolic, barbarian, boor, churl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peasant a common word?

peasant is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.