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serfs - 2 dictionary results

serf

[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.
2. a slave.

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


serfdom, serfhood, serfage, noun


1. vassal, villein, peasant.
serf   (sûrf)   
n.  
  1. 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.
  2. An agricultural laborer under various similar systems, especially in 18th- and 19th-century Russia and eastern Europe.
  3. A person in bondage or servitude.

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