English words for 'Like a peasant.'
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noun
adj
noun
- A peasant; churl.
- (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- (law) A bail bond.
- (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
- Moral or political duty or obligation.
- (law) A document constituting evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
- Any constraining or cementing force or material.
- (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
- An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
- (by ellipsis) Bond paper.
- (often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.
- A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
- (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
- (Scotland) A mortgage.
- A binding agreement, a covenant.
- A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
- (uncountable) The state of being stored in a bonded warehouse
- a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
- the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
- a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal
- a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents
- a connection that fastens things together
- an electrical force linking atoms
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
adj
verb
- (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- (transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
- (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
- (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- (transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
- (transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
- To bail out by means of a bail bond.
- (transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
- To form a friendship or emotional connection.
- issue bonds on
- bring together in a common cause or emotion
- stick to firmly
- create social or emotional ties
noun
- A peasant; a farmer.
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who bows or bends.
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
- a framework that supports climbing plants
verb
noun
- A peasant or yokel.
- (military slang) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
- (UK) A clumsy or foolish person.
- Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.
- A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
- (US) Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.
- a thick and heavy shoe
noun
- A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
- A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
- (strategy games) A worker unit.
- (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
noun
- A member of a primitive society.
- (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A simple-minded person.
- (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
- Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
- Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
- (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- (programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
adj
- Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
- Crude, obsolete.
- (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
- (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
noun
adj
noun
- a country 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.
- one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
- a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- (strategy games) A worker unit.
- (derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
adj
noun
- a country person
- (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
- A country bumpkin.
adj
- characteristic of the provinces or their people
- of or associated with a province
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- Constituting a province.
- Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
- (extreme degree) backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude.
noun
- (historical) A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
- a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
- (informal) A cotter pin.
- (mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
- a medieval English villein
- fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
verb
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- (Philippines) A poor vagrant; a hobo or beggar; one suffering from extreme poverty.
- (Australia, historical) A large-scale grazier and landowner.
- One who squats; one who sits down idly.
- (Australia, historical) One who occupied Crown land.
- (informal) A squat toilet.
- someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
- someone who settles on land without right or title
adj
noun
adj
- (mathematics) Being a vulgar fraction.
- (especially taxonomy) Common, usual; of the typical kind.
- Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
- (historical or derogatory) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- of or associated with the great masses of people
noun
- A person who tills; a farmer.
- A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
- A handle; a stalk.
- (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
- A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
- (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
- (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
- (aviation, by extension) A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
- The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
- lever used to turn the rudder on a boat
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
- someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
verb
noun
adj
adj
noun
- (figurative) Any subordinate bound by similar close ties.
- (historical) Any direct subordinate bound by such vows to a superior.
- (historical, law) The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.
- a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
verb
verb
noun
- (often derogatory) Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.
- (ethnic slur) A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.
- a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
noun
adj
noun
- A peasant; churl.
- (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- (law) A bail bond.
- (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
- Moral or political duty or obligation.
- (law) A document constituting evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
- Any constraining or cementing force or material.
- (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
- An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
- (by ellipsis) Bond paper.
- (often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.
- A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
- (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
- (Scotland) A mortgage.
- A binding agreement, a covenant.
- A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
- (uncountable) The state of being stored in a bonded warehouse
- a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
- the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
- a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal
- a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents
- a connection that fastens things together
- an electrical force linking atoms
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
adj
verb
- (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- (transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
- (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
- (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- (transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
- (transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
- To bail out by means of a bail bond.
- (transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
- To form a friendship or emotional connection.
- issue bonds on
- bring together in a common cause or emotion
- stick to firmly
- create social or emotional ties
noun
- A peasant; a farmer.
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who bows or bends.
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
- a framework that supports climbing plants
verb
noun
- A peasant or yokel.
- (military slang) United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
- (UK) A clumsy or foolish person.
- Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.
- A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
- (US) Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.
- a thick and heavy shoe
noun
- A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
- A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
- (strategy games) A worker unit.
- (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
noun
- A member of a primitive society.
- (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A simple-minded person.
- (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
- Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
- Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
- (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- (programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
adj
- Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
- Crude, obsolete.
- (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
- (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
noun
adj
noun
- a country 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.
- one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
- a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- (strategy games) A worker unit.
- (derogatory) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
adj
noun
- a country person
- (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
- A country bumpkin.
adj
- characteristic of the provinces or their people
- of or associated with a province
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- Constituting a province.
- Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
- (extreme degree) backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude.
noun
- (historical) A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
- a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
- (informal) A cotter pin.
- (mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
- a medieval English villein
- fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
verb
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- (Philippines) A poor vagrant; a hobo or beggar; one suffering from extreme poverty.
- (Australia, historical) A large-scale grazier and landowner.
- One who squats; one who sits down idly.
- (Australia, historical) One who occupied Crown land.
- (informal) A squat toilet.
- someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
- someone who settles on land without right or title
adj
noun
adj
- (mathematics) Being a vulgar fraction.
- (especially taxonomy) Common, usual; of the typical kind.
- Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
- (historical or derogatory) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- of or associated with the great masses of people
noun
- A person who tills; a farmer.
- A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
- A handle; a stalk.
- (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
- A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
- (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
- (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
- (aviation, by extension) A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
- The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
- lever used to turn the rudder on a boat
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
- someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (often derogatory) Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.
- (ethnic slur) A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.
- a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
noun
adj
adj
noun
- (figurative) Any subordinate bound by similar close ties.
- (historical) Any direct subordinate bound by such vows to a superior.
- (historical, law) The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.
- a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord