peasant

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A member of the class constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture.
2. n. A country person; a rustic.
3. n. An uncouth, crude, or ill-bred person; a boor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A person of inferior rank or condition living in the country or in a rural village, and usually engaged in agricultural labor; a rustic; a countryman. A peasant may or may not be the proprietor of the land which he cultivates; in Great Britain he is distinguished from a farmer as having less property, education, or culture, or inferior social position: but the word is very vague. The French peasant (paysan) and the German peasant (bauer) were until recently greatly restricted in their civil and political rights. The word is not used In the United States, where there is no comparatively stable body of agricultural laborers corresponding to the European peasantry.
2. Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, peasants; rustic; rural: often used as an epithet of reproach.

Wiktionary

1. n. A member of the lowly social class which 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. n. A country person.
3. n. An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
4. n. a worker unit

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
2. adj. Rustic, rural.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
2. n. a country person
3. n. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement