Peasant vs farmer - WordReference Forums
WEBJul 16, 2008. #3. A peasant is a social position - much like a "serf" in a feudal system - they are servants who are bound to their land. They serve under a Lord, and must farm the land in order to fulfil their duty. A farmer is not a social position, it is a profession. A farmer is a free person, who owns a real farm.
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WEBSep 30, 2018 · French (France) Aug 16, 2019. #38. Traditionally (particularly in Marxist usage) “peasant, paysan, Bauer” encompasses anyone who works a field, either his own, or rented from a landlord. “Farmer, fermier, Pächter” means someone who rents a field from a landlord. A farmer “farms” his field; a landlord “farms it out”.
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WEBOct 29, 2007 · Hola amigos, una ayuda con peasant farmers. me parece que es redundante y lo único que me ocurre es campesino granjero "Being peasant farmers, they relied on those buses not only for the sugar, cooking oil, tea, and maizemeal that I milled, but for the transportation of agricultural inputs...
peasant as a word not used in everyday BE?
WEBOct 28, 2009 · As a term of abuse: a person of low social status; an ignorant, stupid, unsophisticated, or (formerly esp.) unprincipled person; a boor, a lout; (also more generally) a person who is regarded with scorn or contempt, esp. by members of a particular social group. The meaning of "farmer" is very different.
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WEBAug 25, 2013 · - fairly uncommon now: hereboer ('lord-farmer'literally, a [very] rich farmer, who does not need to work on the field himselfsometimes) - boers (behaving in some rude way) *English distinguishes between peasants and farmers, I think, which refers to poor and rich farmers, or even workers and owners. It is not quiteclear to me whether a peasant ...
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WEBEnglish (Midlands UK) Feb 1, 2019. #2. The only ones of those in common use in modern English are farmer = agriculteur and peasant = (a) agriculteur démuni dans un pays sous-développé, (b) loubard. Yeoman has, nowadays, a very specific emotional flavour, already visible in Shakespeare ( And you, good yeoman, / Whose limbs were made in ...
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WEBMar 27, 2014. #2. My father is a peasant. Do not say this! = my father is an uncultured, ignorant man whose ideas stem from the 16th century. However, if, for example, you are talking about life as it was four or five hundred years ago or more, then "peasant" has the meaning of "agricultural workers and/or their family members who usually have ...
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WEBSep 30, 2008 · In Egypt a fellah was peasant/farmer and in India simply a man or a boy in the Hindi language. Considering most of my relatives served in non-commissioned positions during the course of WWII in both those countries and more they and other like them bought back those words and used them to mean what they mean, fellah in Arabic for peasant …
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WEBMay 26, 2006 · Pawn -- shì bīng 士兵. Castle -- chéng băo 城堡. I have the impression these terms were coined not that long ago (19th or 20th centuries). The Chinese didn't play chess, but another game that looks like it with more pieces and different rules. The pieces are flat and bear their names in Chinese characters.
agnitio operis - WordReference Forums
WEBAug 3, 2011 · Sep 30, 2009. #2. Hi! I reply you in English because I don't know Spanish - even I think I understood almost everything. The meanings you found for those 2 words are correct, except for the fact that operis means work, but not to work: it's a noun, not a verb! And operis is the genitive case of opus, operis, so the meaning of agnitio operis is ...