different between peasant vs vulgarian

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Middle French païsant (“païsant”), from Old French païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Late Latin p?g?nsis (“inhabitant of a district”), from Latin p?gus (“district”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing". More at -ing. Doublet of paisano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?z?nt/
• Rhymes: -?z?nt

Noun

peasant (plural peasants)

1. 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.
2. A country person.
3. (derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
4. (strategy games) A worker unit.

Synonyms

• (lowly social class) peon, serf
• churl
• (country person) rustic, villager
• (crude person) boor

Derived terms

• peasantry

Translations

Further reading

• "peasant" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 231.

Anagrams

• Patanes, Pestana, Tapanes, anapest, patenas

English

Etymology

vulgar +? -ian. Compare Late Latin vulg?rius, Latin vulg?ris.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v?l?????i.?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?l?????i.?n/
• Rhymes: -æ?i?n

Noun

vulgarian (plural vulgarians)

1. A vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to his or her vulgar qualities.
   • 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-Tide [1]:

     He was by this time on the deck, but he had the art to be quite unapproachable; the friendliest vulgarian, three parts drunk, would have known better than take liberties...

   • 1907, William James, Social Value of the College-Bred [2]:

     But to have spent one's youth at college, in contact with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this indeed should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.

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Adjective

vulgarian (comparative more vulgarian, superlative most vulgarian)

1. Having the characteristics of a vulgarian, vulgar.

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