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serf    Audio Help   (sûrf)  Pronunciation Key  n.   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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