campesino

American  

[kahm-pe-see-naw, kam-puh-see-noh] / ˌkɑm pɛˈsi nɔ, ˌkæm pəˈsi noʊ /

noun

Spanish.

• campesinos
  plural

1. (in Latin America) a peasant or farmer.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• campesinos
  plural

Example Sentences

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campesino campesinos

We pass by the pitched tin roofs of tobacco-drying houses, and see workers in high straw campesino hats hoeing the red earth.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2018

The couple have been in the U.S. since 1990, moving from rural Nayarit, Mexico, because they wanted their children to get an education and rise above the life of a campesino.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

With his hair wet and slicked down like Carlos’s, the campesino in the picture looked too much like Carlos for his comfort.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015

The students, who are in their late teens and early twenties, tend to come from poor, indigenous campesino families.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2014

She had appeared one early morning to an old campesino coming into town with his donkey loaded down with garlic.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Chávez “loved his people, protected us campesinos, protected the poor,” she explained.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

Trained in musical traditions of the campesinos, Landero emphasizes these sounds with his own modern spin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

Many local Indigenous Purhépecha people, along with non-Indigenous campesinos, or country farmers, rented or sold land to the emerging avocado farmer class.

From Salon ● May 29, 2024

Those inequalities were on vivid display this month at a roadblock near Cusco, where a group of campesinos sat vigil for hours over a roadblock of tires, tree trunks and boulders.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023

"Yoyo climbing into an old camioneta with all the campesinos and their fighting cocks and their goats and their pigs!"

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez