Difference between Farmer and Peasant

What is the difference between Farmer and Peasant?

Farmer as a noun is a person who works the land or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm. while Peasant as a noun is a member of the lowly social class which 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.

We hope you now know whether to use Farmer or Peasant in your sentence.