The phrase "peasant family" refers to a group of people who live and work on a farm, often doing manual labor. They usually have a simple and traditional lifestyle, relying on farming for their survival.
Sentences with «peasant family»
Li Cunxin was born into an extremely poor peasant family in Qingdoa, a remote commune village in Northern China in 1961. (bookbrowse.com)
The only other members of his family who survived were a cousin and his wife, who had been hidden for three years by a Polish peasant family. (firstthings.com)
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was one of 14 children from an Italian peasant family who became a historian, diplomat, bishop and then Pope John XXIII. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)