campesino
noun
(in Latin America) a peasant or farmer.
campesinos
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pluralof campesino.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Chávez “loved his people, protected us campesinos, protected the poor,” she explained.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026
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
A wall in SFMOMA’s galleries features a series of 1930s watercolors of Zapotec men, each clad in the simple garb of rural campesinos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
We had heard the stories of the bands of campesinos who took to the hills to fight the Yanqui invaders.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
