Spanish Conversation · Level 65
60 words
Spanish word
campesino
Pronunciation
IPA/kampeˈsino/
Meaning
- masculine nounfarmer
Example
El campesino trabaja en el campo todos los días.
The farmer works in the field every day.
More examples
En el mercado de campesinos se venden verduras frescas.
Fresh vegetables are sold at the farmers' market.
Core concept
Person who lives in the countryside and tends a small family farm.
Common phrases
mercado de campesinos
farmers' market
cooperativa de campesinos
farmers' cooperative
Similar words
agricultor: Farmer specialized in growing crops, often operating at a commercial or professional scale.
granjero: Farm operator who manages a farm's livestock and crop production on the property.
labrador: Farmer who tills the land and grows crops by plowing and planting fields.
peón: Manual agricultural worker performing farm tasks for wages.
Definition in Spanish
Persona que vive y trabaja en el campo, normalmente dedicada a labores agrícolas de pequeña escala o al cultivo familiar.
Word origin
From campo (from Latin campus) plus the adjectival suffix -ino (from Latin -inus), originally campesinus, meaning someone of the fields.
Usage tips
- In everyday speech campesino implies a small-scale, rural farmer or smallholder, while formal registers and statistics more often use agricultor for professional or commercial farmers.
Other meanings
- tenant farmernoun
Opposites
- urbanitaurbanitenoun