peasant woman

Field-working countrywoman

A peasant woman is a female member of a traditional agricultural laboring class, typically working the land in a subsistence economy.

The term evokes pre-industrial rural life: peasant women carrying water from the well, a peasant woman in the market selling vegetables.

In modern usage, peasant often carries condescending overtones suggesting someone unsophisticated or lower-class.

Related

harvest · apron · wooden clogs · fields · soil · toil · hearth · cottage · dirt floor · sturdy · weathered · bonnet · milkmaid · wash day · serf · humble · labor · hands

Categories
Opposites
social class/status

peasant womannoblewoman

Female of high birth

queen · princess · aristocrat · duchess · countess

rural vs urban life

peasant womanurbanite

Metropolitan resident

townswoman · bourgeoise · cosmopolitan · city dweller · courtesan

labor and economic role

peasant womanlandowner

One possessing real estate

estate owner · landlady · lady of the house · rentier · capitalist

Family

peasant, woman, peasants, peasantry, women, womanly, womanhood, womanish

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G