serf

Speech parts

1. serf - Noun

2. serf - Verb

Meaning

A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countries attached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.

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Abraham says that in most cases, "subject, servant, client, serf, pawn, dependent, or retainer" would be more accurate. Source: Internet

By 1864 80% of szlachta were déclassé, ¼ petty nobles were worse off than the average serf, 48.9% of land in Russian Poland was in peasant hands, nobles still held 46%. Source: Internet

Elizabeth purchased the talented serf from the nobleman for her own choir. Source: Internet

For example, a serf of the Demidov family might be named Demidovsky, which translates roughly as "belonging to Demidov" or "one of Demidov's bunch". Source: Internet

Instead of a serf -based system of labor, workers were increasingly employed as part of a broader and expanding money-based economy. Source: Internet

Kimakunduchi is a recent renaming of "Kihadimu"; the old name means "serf" and so is considered pejorative. Source: Internet

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