serf

IPA: sˈɝf

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.
(strategy games) A worker unit.

Examples of "serf" in Sentences

The last type of serf was the slave.
Time was, the old serf owned nothing.
Servus is the origin of the word serf.
Are we heading back to a serf society
A serf boy run down by his master's hounds.
Were the Tibetan lamas only brutal to the serf
The poet, moreover, knows the psychology of peasant and serf.
He was also an instrumental figure in the emancipation of the serfs.
The emancipation of the serfs pleased neither the serfs nor the nobles.
The remaining 80 serfs are left with the remaining 50 shares, 0.63 share per serf.