farmer
1. A person who operates a farm.
2. United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920).
3. An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915).
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peasant1. A country person.
2. One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers.
3. A crude uncouth ill-bred person.

Yes, could be. The farmer being the owner, the peasants the laborers.

Last edited by BranShea; 05/15/2008 3:37 PM.