Main Difference
The main difference between Farmer and Peasant is that the Farmer is a person that undertakes agriculture and Peasant is a member of a traditional class of farmers
Farmer
A farmer (also called an agriculturer) is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmed land or might work as a laborer on land owned by others, but in advanced economies, a farmer is usually a farm owner, while employees of the farm are known as farm workers, or farmhands. However, in the not so distant past, a farmer was a person who promotes or improves the growth of (a plant, crop, etc.) by labor and attention, land or crops or raises animals (as livestock or fish).
Peasant
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or farmer, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, peasants were divided into three classes according to their personal status: slave, serf, and free tenant. Peasants either hold title to land in fee simple, or hold land by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.The word peasantry is commonly used in a non-pejorative sense as a collective noun for the rural population in the poor and under-developed countries of the world.
Farmer (noun)
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
Farmer (noun)
Agent noun of farms.
Farmer (noun)
One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
“a farmer of the revenues”
Farmer (noun)
The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
Peasant (noun)
A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
Peasant (noun)
A country person.
Peasant (noun)
An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
Peasant (noun)
A worker unit.
Farmer (noun)
a person who owns or manages a farm.
Farmer (noun)
a person to whom the collection of taxes was contracted for a fee.
Peasant (noun)
a poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries)
“peasant farmers”
Peasant (noun)
an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person
“‘That is a civilized drink, you peasant’”