serf

🇺🇸 /sɜːrf/ 🇬🇧 /sɜːf/
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noun
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A person in the past who had to live and work on someone else's land and obey that person's rules.

In the feudal system, many serfs were bound to the land they worked on and were not allowed to leave.

translation

n. A person in the past who had to live and work on someone else's land and obey that person's rules.

Word Forms

Plural serfs