Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Peasant

Peasant , noun

[Old French paisant (the i being perh. due to confusion with the present participle of verbs), paisan, French paysan, from Old French & French pays country, from Latin pagus the country. See Pagan.]

A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

Peasant , adjective

Rustic, rural. — Spenser