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The Meaning of peon

  • (n.) See Poon.
  • (n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
  • (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
  • (n.) See 2d Pawn.

Synonyms

drudge , hacker , navvy , galley slave , hack

Homophones

paean , pean , peen

Rhymes

achaean , aegean , asean , boolean , breon , caribbean , cleon , creon , crimean , cyclopean , deehan , eon , epicurean , eritrean , european , feehan , fujian , galilean , heon , ian , indo-european , jacobean , jian , keehan , korean , maccabean , mcgeean , mckeon , mycenaean , paean , pheon , plebeian , protean , rijn , shahian , sheahan , sheehan , sofian , teahan , teehan , tennessean , theon , treon , vannguyen , vian , wheen