serf

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
A worker unit.

/sɜːf/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-serf.wav /sɝf/ /sɛɹf/ /søːf/ /seːf/ /sɛːf/

serf serfs

From Middle English serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”).

helot peasant peon villager

service servile servitor servitude servo slave

enserf microserf nonserf serfage serfdom serfhood serfish serfism serflike serfship

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