paysan — meaning in English

English meaning

• peasant noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.
• tiller noun A handle attached to a boat's rudder, used to steer the boat.
• villain noun A wicked or evil character, especially the main antagonist in a story, film, or drama.

Senses

paysan is used for these senses in English:

• peasant A member of the lowly social class that 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.
• peasant A country person.
• peasant (pejorative) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
• tiller A person who tills; a farmer.
• villain (fiction) A character who has the role of being bad, especially antagonizing the hero; an antagonist who is also evil or malevolent.

peasant — full definition

1. noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.
2. noun Informal and often insulting: an unsophisticated or uncultured person.

tiller — full definition

1. noun A handle attached to a boat's rudder, used to steer the boat.
2. noun A person who tills, or cultivates, land.
3. noun A new shoot growing from the base of a plant.

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