serf

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[surf]

–noun

1.	a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.

a slave.

Origin:
1475–85; < MF < L servus slave

Related forms:

serfdom, serfhood, serfage, noun

Synonyms:
1. vassal, villein, peasant.

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serf (sûrf)

A member of the lowest feudal class, attached to the land owned by a lord and required to perform labor in return for certain legal or customary rights.
An agricultural laborer under various similar systems, especially in 18th- and 19th-century Russia and eastern Europe.
A person in bondage or servitude.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin servus, slave.]
serf'dom n.

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