The difference between Peasant and Serf
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 serf means a partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
check bellow for the other definitions of Peasant and Serf
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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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Serf as a noun:
A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
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Serf as a noun:
A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
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Serf as a noun (strategy games):
A worker unit.