peasant vs pleb

peasant

noun
  • An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person. 

  • A country person. 

  • 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 worker unit. 

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

pleb

noun
  • A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person. 

  • A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society. 

  • A freshman cadet at a military academy. 

adj
  • Of or concerning the lower class of a society. 

  • Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse. 

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