EGAVE

serf

About 0.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
  2. noun A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
  3. noun A worker unit.

Similar words

villein helot slave esne bondsman vassal laborer owning serfism adscript

Often followed by

and of was to or in who labour labor

Word family

serfage serfages serfs

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