serf
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- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 4
/sɜːf/
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/sɜːf/ · /sɝf/ (US) · /sɛɹf/ · /søːf/ · /seːf/ · /sɛːf/
Definition of serf
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.
“See how the serfs work the ground / And they give it all they’ve got”
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noun
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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.
“See how the serfs work the ground / And they give it all they’ve got”
- A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
- A worker unit.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”).
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