serf
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From French, from Latin servus 'slave, serf, servant', perhaps of Etruscan origin
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- surf (in accents with the fern-fir-fur merger)
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serf (plural serfs)
- A semifree peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached 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
- (strategy games) A worker unit
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- Chinese: 農奴, 农奴 (nóngnú)
- Czech: nevolník cs(cs) m.
- Dutch: horige, laat, lijfeigene, serf m. and f.
- Finnish: maaorja fi(fi)
- French: serf fr(fr) m.
- German: Leibeigener m.
- Greek: δουλοπάροικος (dulopárikos) m.
- Italian: servo it(it) m.
- Japanese: 農奴 (のうど, nōdo), 小作人 (こさくにん, kosakunin)
- Korean: 농노 (nongno)
- Macedonian: кмет (kmet) m., закрепостен селанец (zakréposten sélanec) m., крепосен селанец (kréposen sélanec) m.
- Portuguese: servo pt(pt) m.
- Romanian: iobag m.
- Russian: холоп (kholóp) m., крепостной (krepostnój) m., крепостная (krepostnája) f.
- Serbian: kmet m., kmetica f.
- Spanish: siervo es(es) m.
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[edit] Dutch
[edit] Etymology
From French, from Latin servus 'slave, serf, servant', perhaps of Etruscan origin
[edit] Noun
serf m. (plural serven, diminutive serfje, diminutive plural serfjes)
- A serf, semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From French, from Latin servus 'slave, serf, servant', perhaps of Etruscan origin
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serf m. (plural serfs)
- A serf, semifree peasant obliged to remain on the lord's land and to perform extensive chores for him
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serf
- being or like a serf, semifree
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- Anagrams of efrs
- fers
