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

The demonstrations began in December after the arrest of then-President Pedro Castillo, whose campesino roots had inspired many poor Peruvians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

So for the next couple of weeks, De Leon stayed indoors as her campesino parents hatched a plan to save her life.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 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

Here and there a braid of smoke rises up from a hillside—a campesino and his family living out their solitary life.

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

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

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

“We’re campesinos, we come from the fields,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2025

Mexico passed a law in 2003 that prohibited clearing forests for commercial agriculture, but by this time campesinos in Michoacán were already growing Hass avocados on a large scale.

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