Commoner vs. Peasant — What's the Difference?

A commoner, also known as the common man, commoners, the common people or the masses, was in earlier use an ordinary person in a community or nation who did not have any significant social status, especially one who was a member of neither royalty, nobility, nor any part of the aristocracy. Depending on culture and period, other elevated persons (such members of clergy) may have had higher social status in their own right, or were regarded as commoners if lacking an aristocratic background.

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.

One of the common people.

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 without noble rank or title.

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

A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.

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

(British) Someone who is not of noble rank.

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

A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.

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 who has a right over another's land. They hold common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land. eg: centuries-old grazing rights

A country person.

(obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.

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

(obsolete) A prostitute.

(strategy games) A worker unit.

One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.

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

A member of the House of Commons.

Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.

One who has a joint right in common ground.

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

One sharing with another in anything.

Rustic, rural.

A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.

A country person

A prostitute.

One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers

A person who holds no title

A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement