peasant vs peon

peasant

noun
  • 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. 

  • A country person. 

  • A worker unit. 

  • An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person. 

adj
  • Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated. 

peon

noun
  • A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work. 

  • A person of low rank or importance. 

  • A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman. 

How often have the words peasant and peon occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )