What does a peasant mean?

The dictionary has it as a noun and define it as a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).

synonyms: agricultural worker, small farmer, rustic, villein, serf, campesino; More

informal

an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person; a person of low social status.