Vocabulary
Peasant
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).
Urdu meaning
دیہاتی، کسان
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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Within four years, Mao Zedong`s peasant army (Stalin called them `margarine communists`) defeated them and entered Beijing.
Dawn Editorials —
World War IV
— 2025-09-11
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Besides all the opposition parties, there were media persons, doctors` bodies, labour unions, peasant communes, intellectuals, writers, students, academia and even children.
Dawn Editorials —
The changing winds
— 2025-05-07
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He fought peasant rebellions led by Sikhs, Marathas and Jats.
Dawn Editorials —
The view from Aurangzeb`s grave
— 2025-03-25
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Many poets, writers and actors cut their teeth in the romance of the peasant struggle against feudalism.
Dawn Editorials —
India`s left-right centenary
— 2025-03-11
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Inequality has grown over the past two decades as, increasingly, the historical relationship between peasant-farmers and the land has been severed.
Dawn Editorials —
Economic democracy
— 2025-02-28
Synonyms
agricultural worker, small farmer, rustic, son of the soil, countryman, countrywoman, farmhand
Antonyms
cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate
Curator example
“peasants left the farms to work in industry”
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