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百姓 — meaning in English

hyakushō

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English meaning

  • peasant noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.

Senses

百姓 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 — 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.

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