The difference between Boor and Peasant

When used as nouns, boor means a peasant, whereas peasant means 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.


check bellow for the other definitions of Boor and Peasant

  1. Boor as a noun:

    A peasant.

  2. Boor as a noun:

    A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.

  3. Boor as a noun:

    A yokel, country bumpkin.

  4. Boor as a noun:

    An uncultured person.

  1. Peasant as a noun:

    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.

  2. Peasant as a noun:

    A country person.

  3. Peasant as a noun (pejorative):

    An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.

  4. Peasant as a noun (strategy games):

    A worker unit.

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