serf

serf (sûrf)

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.]

serfdom n.

serf [sɜːf]

(Historical Terms) (esp in medieval Europe) an unfree person, esp one bound to the land. If his lord sold the land, the serf was passed on to the new landlord

[from Old French, from Latin servus a slave; see serve]

serfdom , serfhood n

serflike adj

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Noun

serf - (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

helot, villein

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

cottier, cotter - a medieval English villein

thrall - someone held in bondage

Dark Ages, Middle Ages - the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance

serf

noun vassal, servant, slave, thrall, bondsman, varlet (archaic), helot, villein, liegeman He was the son of an emancipated serf.

Translations

serf [sɜːf] N → siervo/a m/f (de la gleba)

serf [ˈsɜː^rf] n → serf* $(serve)m/f

serf

n → Leibeigene(r) mf

serf [sɜːf] n → servo/a della gleba

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Adscript adscripted Alexander II Alexander the Liberator bondage bondservant cotter cottier Czar Alexander II enserf freewoman helot helotry Neif Serfage serfdom Serfhood thraldom thrall	"No longer ago than last night at the `Pied Merlin,'" the clerk answered, recognizing the escaped serf who had been so outspoken as to his wrongs. The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context He must bring nothing outside; we will go in -- in among the dirt, and possibly other repulsive things, -- and take the food with the household, and after the fashion of the house, and all on equal terms, except the man be of the serf class; and finally, there will be no ewer and no napkin, whether he be serf or free. A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context The occasional emergence of an Equilateral from the ranks of his serf-born ancestors is welcomed, not only by the poor serfs themselves, as a gleam of light and hope shed upon the monotonous squalor of their existence, but also by the Aristocracy at large; for all the higher classes are well aware that these rare phenomena, while they do little or nothing to vulgarize their own privileges, serve as a most useful barrier against revolution from below. Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context	Serbo-Croatian Serbonian Sercq serdab Serdica sere serein Seremban serenade Serenader serenata serendipitous serendipity serene serenely Sereneness sereness Serengeti Serengeti National Park Serengeti Plain Serenitude serenity Serenoa Serenoa repens Serer serf Serfage serfdom Serfhood serfism serflike serge Serge Koussevitzky Sergeancy sergeant sergeant at arms sergeant at law sergeant baker sergeant first class sergeant fish sergeant major Sergeant-at-arms sergeant-at-law Sergeantcy Sergeantry Sergeantship sergeanty Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky Sergei Diaghilev Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein	Serependity Serependity Serer Serer Serer Sèrèr Sèrèr serere Serere Agricultural and Animal Research Institute Serers Serers Seres Seres Seres SERESC Seresta Serestra Serestra Seret Seret (Hasidic dynasty) Seret-Frenet equations Sereth Sereth Seretide Seretse Khama Seretse Khama Serevent Serevent Diskus SEREX Serezha serf Serf Intelligentsia Serf Theater Serfage Serfage Serfage SERFC serfdom serfdom serfdom SERFF serfhood serfism serflike Serfs Serfs Serfs Serfs on the Manor SERG Sergach serge serge serge Serge de Nimes Serge de Nimes Serge Diaghilev Serge Diaghilev Serge Julievich, Count Witte Serge Koussevitzky Serge Koussevitzky Serge Prokofiev

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Adscript
adscripted
Alexander II
Alexander the Liberator
bondage
bondservant
cotter
cottier
Czar Alexander II
enserf
freewoman
helot
helotry
Neif
Serfage
serfdom
Serfhood
thraldom
thrall

"No longer ago than last night at the `Pied Merlin,'" the clerk answered, recognizing the escaped serf who had been so outspoken as to his wrongs.

The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

He must bring nothing outside; we will go in -- in among the dirt, and possibly other repulsive things, -- and take the food with the household, and after the fashion of the house, and all on equal terms, except the man be of the serf class; and finally, there will be no ewer and no napkin, whether he be serf or free.

A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context

The occasional emergence of an Equilateral from the ranks of his serf-born ancestors is welcomed, not only by the poor serfs themselves, as a gleam of light and hope shed upon the monotonous squalor of their existence, but also by the Aristocracy at large; for all the higher classes are well aware that these rare phenomena, while they do little or nothing to vulgarize their own privileges, serve as a most useful barrier against revolution from below.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

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