serf — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bondman noun A man who is bound in servitude.
- drudge noun A person who works in a low servile job.
- serf noun A peasant tied to a piece of land under a feudal lord, obliged to work it but with very limited personal freedoms.
- slave noun A person legally owned by another and forced to work without freedom or pay.
Senses
serf is used for these senses in English:
- bondman A man who is bound in servitude.
- drudge A person who works in a low servile job.
- serf 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.
- slave A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
drudge — full definition
- noun A person who works in a low servile job.
- noun Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.