Farmer vs. Peasant — What's the Difference?

A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock.

A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: slave, serf, and free tenant.

A person who owns or manages a farm.

A poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries)

A person to whom the collection of taxes was contracted for a fee.

A member of a class of small farmers and farm laborers, especially in a preindustrial or underdeveloped society.

One who works on or operates a farm.

A person who lives in a rural area; a rustic.

One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.

A person who is considered crude or uncouth; a boor.

A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.

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.

Someone or something that farms, as:

A country person.

A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.

(pejorative) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.

(strategy games) A worker unit.

(historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

(attributive) Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.

The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.

A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.

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

(dated) A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).

Rustic, rural.

One who farms

A country person

A person who operates a farm

One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)