крестья́нин — meaning in English

English meaning

• farmer noun Someone who owns or works land to grow crops or raise livestock.
• peasant noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.

Senses

крестья́нин is used for these senses in English:

• farmer A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.
• mujik A Russian (male) peasant. [from 16th c.]
• 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 (strategy games) A worker unit.

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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