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1. (n.) serf
a person in a condition of feudal servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
2. serf
a slave.
Etymology: (1475–85; < MF < L servus slave)
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1. (noun) serf, helot, villein
(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
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1. (verb) serf
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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