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serf

/sɜːf/
noun
  1. 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

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

  3. (strategy games) a worker unit

    Similar: peasant, peon, villager

Synonymspeasant, peon, villager

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