The difference between Peasant and Rustic
When used as nouns, 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, whereas rustic means a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
Rustic is also adjective with the meaning: country-styled or pastoral.
check bellow for the other definitions of Peasant and Rustic
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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.
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Peasant as a noun:
A country person.
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Peasant as a noun (pejorative):
An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
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Peasant as a noun (strategy games):
A worker unit.
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Rustic as an adjective:
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
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Rustic as an adjective:
Unfinished or roughly finished.
Examples:
"'rustic manners"
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Rustic as an adjective:
Crude, rough.
Examples:
"'rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely"
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Rustic as an adjective:
Simple; artless; unaffected.
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Rustic as a noun:
A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.