小作人 — meaning in English
kosakunin
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English meaning
- peasant noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.
- serf noun A peasant tied to a piece of land under a feudal lord, obliged to work it but with very limited personal freedoms.
- tenant noun Someone who pays rent to live in or use a property owned by someone else.
Senses
小作人 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.
- serf A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
- tenant (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
peasant — full definition
- noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.
- noun Informal and often insulting: an unsophisticated or uncultured person.