Definition of peon in English:

peon

noun ˈpiːən

1A Spanish-American day labourer or unskilled farm worker.
美国西班牙裔散工工人；非技术农场工人
Example sentencesExamples
- I will not waste my precious time with peons such at these.
- Don't worry, it's just a little incentive to get her to socialize with us peons.
- Over the years, the self-described ‘former tyrant’ has learned that a company comes to life when it treats its staff as peers rather than as peons.
- Then again, if empty words and promises is all that it takes to placate the peons that inhabit the hinterlands, then why go through the bother of even trying to provide real solutions?
- If you'll excuse me, I am rather busy, and don't care to discuss civic reform with peons.
- Coal is simply harvested by henchmen (peasant or peons for the rest of you) and these two resources are all that's needed to wage war.
- Although we'd love to see that record in print, too, us superior folk would no longer have anything to lord over the peons.
- This is a big time saver as far as training peasants, peons, wisps, and acolytes, which serve as the gatherers of lumber and gold and also provide the muscle to construct your base structures.
- After playing the game for 50 minutes, the computer will have successfully constructed one farm and three peons, each of which are harvesting lumber for no reason.
- The power you think you wield is limited to a few faithful peons.
- When catalyzed with money, governmentium becomes administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy, since it has one-half as many peons but twice as many morons.
- If you are going to play favorites, don't tell us peons about it.
- After the 1979 revolution, they argued that women cannot be judges, and they made us all into peons in the ministry of justice.
- The earth-shattering declaration (which was an absolute absurdity, really) came from a tall, willowy girl surrounded by what could only be classified as a gaggle of peons.
- Unfortunately, he didn't say a word about how we peons could implement this idea in our classes, so it seemed a bit unapproachable.
- Now will you tell us lowly peons what we're doing here?
- He was foolish to think that anything but fear could rule these peons.
- Spanish-speaking peon laborers from Venezuela arrived in the nineteenth century to clear forests and work in cocoa cultivation.
- In 1901, the councillors gave up the privilege of having peons who used to accompany them during assessments and inspections.
- In this world, you are unable to control any peasants or peons directly.
1. 1.1North American A person who does menial work.
  〈主北美〉劳工，苦工
  racing drivers aren't exactly nine-to-five peons
  赛车运动员不是完全正常的朝九晚五劳工。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was a smart mechanic, but she was still a mere peon to the vassal that owned her.
  ‘They talk about who's in charge and who are the peons,’ he says.
  Synonyms
  servant, domestic servant, domestic, drudge, maid of all work
2. 1.2historical A debtor held in servitude by a creditor, especially in the southern US and Mexico.
  〈史〉（尤指美国南部和墨西哥的）抵债苦工，抵债奴
  Example sentencesExamples
  This political art project was designed to compensate the impoverished peons of Mexico for the failure of the 1910-1919 revolution led by Zapata and Pancho Villa.
  Thus the Southern peon is not, in fact, and as an individual, as irrevocably bound to the wheel of industry as his Northern brother, since he may always escape to churldom.
2(in South and SE Asia) a low-ranking soldier or worker.
Example sentencesExamples
- They had come from the slums of the favelas with a dream of being a patron of a large estate centered with a grand hacienda: Indian peons would work their wide acreage and cater to their needs.
- Harvesting of the plant was a speculative enterprise, with Indian debt peons spending months in the forest harvesting, drying and bailing the crop.
- He also shows how peons sought to escape military demands and to redefine their relationship with the state by migrating, changing identity, and reinventing a new political and military persona.
- From Old French, it went to Portuguese which gave it to Indian languages as peon: one who walks ahead of the master, a factotum.
- For the footsoldiers of such opposition are usually the same poor peons whose livelihood derives from cultivating cannabis or coca.
Synonyms
worker, factory worker, manual worker, unskilled worker, blue-collar worker, workman, workwoman, workperson, working man, labourer, operative, hired hand, hireling, roustabout, employee, artisan
3
another term for banderillero
Example sentencesExamples
- During the preliminary phase the footmen, peones or capeadores work the bull with large magenta and gold capes while carefully appraising its agility, intelligence, dangers, sight and, most importantly, its strength.

Derivatives

peonage

noun

These forms typically include serfdom, indentured labor, debt peonage, convict labor, ‘wage slavery,’ and forms of elite slavery, in addition to plantation slavery.
Example sentencesExamples
- The transaction carries overtones of moves to reduce the autonomy of rural African Americans with the debt peonage of sharecropping or exploitation in industrial mills.
- Practices specifically outlawed - such as debt peonage, where subjects are trapped in an unending cycle of indebtedness for necessities of life which cannot be overcome through their labor - were in reality widespread.
- It is even more doubtful whether the colonialists often actually intended the physical extermination of indigenous peoples rather than their displacement, peonage, or enslavement, and conversion to Christianity.
- The masses, having lived in peonage and slavery under their old masters, fell into a similar yet more industrialized status as United States firms moved onto the island in search of cheap labor and tax benefits.

Origin

From Portuguese peão and Spanish peón, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- 'walker, foot soldier', from Latin pes, ped- 'foot'. Compare with pawn¹.

Rhymes

Actaeon, Aegean, aeon (US eon), Augean, Behan, Cadmean, Caribbean, Carolean, Chaldean, Cyclopean, empyrean, epicurean, European, Fijian, Galilean, Hasmonean, Hebridean, Herculean, Ian, Jacobean, Kampuchean, Laodicean, lien, Linnaean (US Linnean), Maccabean, Mandaean (US Mandean), Medicean, monogenean, Nabataean (US Nabatean), Orphean, paean, paeon, pean, Periclean, piscean, plebeian, Pyrenean, Pythagorean, Sabaean, Sadducean, Sisyphean, skean, Tanzanian, Tennesseean, Terpsichorean, theodicean, Tyrolean

Definition of peon in US English:

peon

nounˈpēˌän

1A Spanish-American day laborer or unskilled farm worker.
美国西班牙裔散工工人；非技术农场工人
Example sentencesExamples
- After playing the game for 50 minutes, the computer will have successfully constructed one farm and three peons, each of which are harvesting lumber for no reason.
- I will not waste my precious time with peons such at these.
- Don't worry, it's just a little incentive to get her to socialize with us peons.
- Although we'd love to see that record in print, too, us superior folk would no longer have anything to lord over the peons.
- This is a big time saver as far as training peasants, peons, wisps, and acolytes, which serve as the gatherers of lumber and gold and also provide the muscle to construct your base structures.
- If you are going to play favorites, don't tell us peons about it.
- When catalyzed with money, governmentium becomes administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy, since it has one-half as many peons but twice as many morons.
- The earth-shattering declaration (which was an absolute absurdity, really) came from a tall, willowy girl surrounded by what could only be classified as a gaggle of peons.
- Coal is simply harvested by henchmen (peasant or peons for the rest of you) and these two resources are all that's needed to wage war.
- The power you think you wield is limited to a few faithful peons.
- Then again, if empty words and promises is all that it takes to placate the peons that inhabit the hinterlands, then why go through the bother of even trying to provide real solutions?
- If you'll excuse me, I am rather busy, and don't care to discuss civic reform with peons.
- Spanish-speaking peon laborers from Venezuela arrived in the nineteenth century to clear forests and work in cocoa cultivation.
- Now will you tell us lowly peons what we're doing here?
- He was foolish to think that anything but fear could rule these peons.
- In 1901, the councillors gave up the privilege of having peons who used to accompany them during assessments and inspections.
- Unfortunately, he didn't say a word about how we peons could implement this idea in our classes, so it seemed a bit unapproachable.
- In this world, you are unable to control any peasants or peons directly.
- Over the years, the self-described ‘former tyrant’ has learned that a company comes to life when it treats its staff as peers rather than as peons.
- After the 1979 revolution, they argued that women cannot be judges, and they made us all into peons in the ministry of justice.
1. 1.1North American A person who does menial work; a drudge.
  〈主北美〉劳工，苦工
  racing drivers aren't exactly normal nine-to-five peons
  赛车运动员不是完全正常的朝九晚五劳工。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘They talk about who's in charge and who are the peons,’ he says.
  She was a smart mechanic, but she was still a mere peon to the vassal that owned her.
  Synonyms
  servant, domestic servant, domestic, drudge, maid of all work
2. 1.2historical A debtor held in servitude by a creditor, especially in the southern US and Mexico.
  〈史〉（尤指美国南部和墨西哥的）抵债苦工，抵债奴
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thus the Southern peon is not, in fact, and as an individual, as irrevocably bound to the wheel of industry as his Northern brother, since he may always escape to churldom.
  This political art project was designed to compensate the impoverished peons of Mexico for the failure of the 1910-1919 revolution led by Zapata and Pancho Villa.
2(in South and Southeast Asia) a low-ranking soldier or worker.
Example sentencesExamples
- He also shows how peons sought to escape military demands and to redefine their relationship with the state by migrating, changing identity, and reinventing a new political and military persona.
- They had come from the slums of the favelas with a dream of being a patron of a large estate centered with a grand hacienda: Indian peons would work their wide acreage and cater to their needs.
- For the footsoldiers of such opposition are usually the same poor peons whose livelihood derives from cultivating cannabis or coca.
- From Old French, it went to Portuguese which gave it to Indian languages as peon: one who walks ahead of the master, a factotum.
- Harvesting of the plant was a speculative enterprise, with Indian debt peons spending months in the forest harvesting, drying and bailing the crop.
Synonyms
worker, factory worker, manual worker, unskilled worker, blue-collar worker, workman, workwoman, workperson, working man, labourer, operative, hired hand, hireling, roustabout, employee, artisan
1. 2.1 An attendant or messenger.

Origin

From Portuguese peão and Spanish peón, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- ‘walker, foot soldier’, from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot’. Compare with pawn.

词汇	peon
释义	Definition of peon in English: peon noun ˈpiːən 1A Spanish-American day labourer or unskilled farm worker. 美国西班牙裔散工工人；非技术农场工人 Example sentencesExamples I will not waste my precious time with peons such at these. Don't worry, it's just a little incentive to get her to socialize with us peons. Over the years, the self-described ‘former tyrant’ has learned that a company comes to life when it treats its staff as peers rather than as peons. Then again, if empty words and promises is all that it takes to placate the peons that inhabit the hinterlands, then why go through the bother of even trying to provide real solutions? If you'll excuse me, I am rather busy, and don't care to discuss civic reform with peons. Coal is simply harvested by henchmen (peasant or peons for the rest of you) and these two resources are all that's needed to wage war. Although we'd love to see that record in print, too, us superior folk would no longer have anything to lord over the peons. This is a big time saver as far as training peasants, peons, wisps, and acolytes, which serve as the gatherers of lumber and gold and also provide the muscle to construct your base structures. After playing the game for 50 minutes, the computer will have successfully constructed one farm and three peons, each of which are harvesting lumber for no reason. The power you think you wield is limited to a few faithful peons. When catalyzed with money, governmentium becomes administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy, since it has one-half as many peons but twice as many morons. If you are going to play favorites, don't tell us peons about it. After the 1979 revolution, they argued that women cannot be judges, and they made us all into peons in the ministry of justice. The earth-shattering declaration (which was an absolute absurdity, really) came from a tall, willowy girl surrounded by what could only be classified as a gaggle of peons. Unfortunately, he didn't say a word about how we peons could implement this idea in our classes, so it seemed a bit unapproachable. Now will you tell us lowly peons what we're doing here? He was foolish to think that anything but fear could rule these peons. Spanish-speaking peon laborers from Venezuela arrived in the nineteenth century to clear forests and work in cocoa cultivation. In 1901, the councillors gave up the privilege of having peons who used to accompany them during assessments and inspections. In this world, you are unable to control any peasants or peons directly. 1.1North American A person who does menial work. 〈主北美〉劳工，苦工 racing drivers aren't exactly nine-to-five peons 赛车运动员不是完全正常的朝九晚五劳工。 Example sentencesExamples She was a smart mechanic, but she was still a mere peon to the vassal that owned her. ‘They talk about who's in charge and who are the peons,’ he says. Synonyms servant, domestic servant, domestic, drudge, maid of all work 1.2historical A debtor held in servitude by a creditor, especially in the southern US and Mexico. 〈史〉（尤指美国南部和墨西哥的）抵债苦工，抵债奴 Example sentencesExamples This political art project was designed to compensate the impoverished peons of Mexico for the failure of the 1910-1919 revolution led by Zapata and Pancho Villa. Thus the Southern peon is not, in fact, and as an individual, as irrevocably bound to the wheel of industry as his Northern brother, since he may always escape to churldom. 2(in South and SE Asia) a low-ranking soldier or worker. Example sentencesExamples They had come from the slums of the favelas with a dream of being a patron of a large estate centered with a grand hacienda: Indian peons would work their wide acreage and cater to their needs. Harvesting of the plant was a speculative enterprise, with Indian debt peons spending months in the forest harvesting, drying and bailing the crop. He also shows how peons sought to escape military demands and to redefine their relationship with the state by migrating, changing identity, and reinventing a new political and military persona. From Old French, it went to Portuguese which gave it to Indian languages as peon: one who walks ahead of the master, a factotum. For the footsoldiers of such opposition are usually the same poor peons whose livelihood derives from cultivating cannabis or coca. Synonyms worker, factory worker, manual worker, unskilled worker, blue-collar worker, workman, workwoman, workperson, working man, labourer, operative, hired hand, hireling, roustabout, employee, artisan 3 another term for banderillero Example sentencesExamples During the preliminary phase the footmen, peones or capeadores work the bull with large magenta and gold capes while carefully appraising its agility, intelligence, dangers, sight and, most importantly, its strength. Derivatives peonage noun These forms typically include serfdom, indentured labor, debt peonage, convict labor, ‘wage slavery,’ and forms of elite slavery, in addition to plantation slavery. Example sentencesExamples The transaction carries overtones of moves to reduce the autonomy of rural African Americans with the debt peonage of sharecropping or exploitation in industrial mills. Practices specifically outlawed - such as debt peonage, where subjects are trapped in an unending cycle of indebtedness for necessities of life which cannot be overcome through their labor - were in reality widespread. It is even more doubtful whether the colonialists often actually intended the physical extermination of indigenous peoples rather than their displacement, peonage, or enslavement, and conversion to Christianity. The masses, having lived in peonage and slavery under their old masters, fell into a similar yet more industrialized status as United States firms moved onto the island in search of cheap labor and tax benefits. Origin From Portuguese peão and Spanish peón, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- 'walker, foot soldier', from Latin pes, ped- 'foot'. Compare with pawn¹. Rhymes Actaeon, Aegean, aeon (US eon), Augean, Behan, Cadmean, Caribbean, Carolean, Chaldean, Cyclopean, empyrean, epicurean, European, Fijian, Galilean, Hasmonean, Hebridean, Herculean, Ian, Jacobean, Kampuchean, Laodicean, lien, Linnaean (US Linnean), Maccabean, Mandaean (US Mandean), Medicean, monogenean, Nabataean (US Nabatean), Orphean, paean, paeon, pean, Periclean, piscean, plebeian, Pyrenean, Pythagorean, Sabaean, Sadducean, Sisyphean, skean, Tanzanian, Tennesseean, Terpsichorean, theodicean, Tyrolean Definition of peon in US English: peon nounˈpēˌän 1A Spanish-American day laborer or unskilled farm worker. 美国西班牙裔散工工人；非技术农场工人 Example sentencesExamples After playing the game for 50 minutes, the computer will have successfully constructed one farm and three peons, each of which are harvesting lumber for no reason. I will not waste my precious time with peons such at these. Don't worry, it's just a little incentive to get her to socialize with us peons. Although we'd love to see that record in print, too, us superior folk would no longer have anything to lord over the peons. This is a big time saver as far as training peasants, peons, wisps, and acolytes, which serve as the gatherers of lumber and gold and also provide the muscle to construct your base structures. If you are going to play favorites, don't tell us peons about it. When catalyzed with money, governmentium becomes administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy, since it has one-half as many peons but twice as many morons. The earth-shattering declaration (which was an absolute absurdity, really) came from a tall, willowy girl surrounded by what could only be classified as a gaggle of peons. Coal is simply harvested by henchmen (peasant or peons for the rest of you) and these two resources are all that's needed to wage war. The power you think you wield is limited to a few faithful peons. Then again, if empty words and promises is all that it takes to placate the peons that inhabit the hinterlands, then why go through the bother of even trying to provide real solutions? If you'll excuse me, I am rather busy, and don't care to discuss civic reform with peons. Spanish-speaking peon laborers from Venezuela arrived in the nineteenth century to clear forests and work in cocoa cultivation. Now will you tell us lowly peons what we're doing here? He was foolish to think that anything but fear could rule these peons. In 1901, the councillors gave up the privilege of having peons who used to accompany them during assessments and inspections. Unfortunately, he didn't say a word about how we peons could implement this idea in our classes, so it seemed a bit unapproachable. In this world, you are unable to control any peasants or peons directly. Over the years, the self-described ‘former tyrant’ has learned that a company comes to life when it treats its staff as peers rather than as peons. After the 1979 revolution, they argued that women cannot be judges, and they made us all into peons in the ministry of justice. 1.1North American A person who does menial work; a drudge. 〈主北美〉劳工，苦工 racing drivers aren't exactly normal nine-to-five peons 赛车运动员不是完全正常的朝九晚五劳工。 Example sentencesExamples ‘They talk about who's in charge and who are the peons,’ he says. She was a smart mechanic, but she was still a mere peon to the vassal that owned her. Synonyms servant, domestic servant, domestic, drudge, maid of all work 1.2historical A debtor held in servitude by a creditor, especially in the southern US and Mexico. 〈史〉（尤指美国南部和墨西哥的）抵债苦工，抵债奴 Example sentencesExamples Thus the Southern peon is not, in fact, and as an individual, as irrevocably bound to the wheel of industry as his Northern brother, since he may always escape to churldom. This political art project was designed to compensate the impoverished peons of Mexico for the failure of the 1910-1919 revolution led by Zapata and Pancho Villa. 2(in South and Southeast Asia) a low-ranking soldier or worker. Example sentencesExamples He also shows how peons sought to escape military demands and to redefine their relationship with the state by migrating, changing identity, and reinventing a new political and military persona. They had come from the slums of the favelas with a dream of being a patron of a large estate centered with a grand hacienda: Indian peons would work their wide acreage and cater to their needs. For the footsoldiers of such opposition are usually the same poor peons whose livelihood derives from cultivating cannabis or coca. From Old French, it went to Portuguese which gave it to Indian languages as peon: one who walks ahead of the master, a factotum. Harvesting of the plant was a speculative enterprise, with Indian debt peons spending months in the forest harvesting, drying and bailing the crop. Synonyms worker, factory worker, manual worker, unskilled worker, blue-collar worker, workman, workwoman, workperson, working man, labourer, operative, hired hand, hireling, roustabout, employee, artisan 2.1 An attendant or messenger. Origin From Portuguese peão and Spanish peón, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- ‘walker, foot soldier’, from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot’. Compare with pawn.
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