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Definition of helot in English: helotnoun ˈhɛlətˈhɛlət 1A member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens. Example sentencesExamples - He next persuaded Athens to send him with a large hoplite force to help Sparta against the helots, now in revolt.
- Boeotia was agriculturally rich but had neither Athens' silver nor Sparta's helots.
- Before the wolves can get him, however, he is rescued by a wise old shepherd and brought up as a helot, one of the aboriginal population the Spartans have enslaved.
- The Spartans, he said, would never dare attack Attica with an Athenian army in their homeland, and an invasion would likely spur a revolt of the helots.
- Plato, for example, remarked that the helot system was the most controversial example of servitude in Greece.
- 1.1 A serf or slave.
Example sentencesExamples - My view is that we really need a new Home Secretary who is wedded to the values our democracy is supposed to represent, not someone who seems to have it as his mission to turn us into a nation of helots.
- In addition to being super-exploited, Dubai's helots are also expected to be generally invisible.
- The Nazis apparently intended to reduce Slavs such as the Poles to the status of helots.
- The ultimate aim was to make South Africa a ‘white man's country’ built on black helots.
- The new, networked society of global helots is here and now.
Derivatives noun By abandoning the effort, we are, in effect, implementing a new form of helotage. Example sentencesExamples - Altogether, these papers provide a stimulating overview of the major questions, debates, and methodologies in current scholarship on helotage in one accessible volume.
- Compulsory labour takes a considerable variety of forms, today as in the past - debt bondage, clientship, peonage, helotage, serfdom, chattel slavery, and so on.
- However while Sparta tried to deliberately avoid creating a class structure among its citizens, the existence of helotage ensured that there was always the possibility of a class war and opportunity for large-scale revolt.
- The Spartans had, in the archaic era, annexed the adjacent territory of Messenia and forced the once-independent Messenians into helotage.
noun Ancient and modern authors have found it very difficult to define helotism, because it was not considered to be an ordinary type of unfree labor. Example sentencesExamples - He urged him to abolish the prerogatives claimed by nobles and the helotism of all who were not noble, and suggested that judges should be appointed for life and justice rendered free of expense.
- The hard helotism to which the tremendous range of the sciences condemns every scholar today is a main reason why those with a fuller, richer, profounder disposition no longer find a congenial education and congenial educators.
noun ˈhɛlətriˈhɛlətri If Joe Public shrugs off each new encroachment as minor in itself, he will have only himself to blame if he ends up in state-controlled helotry. Example sentencesExamples - The Scottish Socialist Party, the sole ark of salvation to which 128,026 Scots look for emancipation from capitalist helotry, is in meltdown.
- Sparta had also, in the late 8th century, defeated and annexed the territory of Messenia, its western neighbour, reducing its population to helotry and dividing its land among the full Spartiate citizens.
- The numbers amount to a huge under-estimate of the actual rise in state-subsidised helotry.
Origin Via Latin from Greek Heilōtes (plural), traditionally taken as referring to Helos, a Laconian town whose inhabitants were enslaved. Definition of helot in US English: helotnounˈhelətˈhɛlət 1A member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens. Example sentencesExamples - The Spartans, he said, would never dare attack Attica with an Athenian army in their homeland, and an invasion would likely spur a revolt of the helots.
- He next persuaded Athens to send him with a large hoplite force to help Sparta against the helots, now in revolt.
- Boeotia was agriculturally rich but had neither Athens' silver nor Sparta's helots.
- Before the wolves can get him, however, he is rescued by a wise old shepherd and brought up as a helot, one of the aboriginal population the Spartans have enslaved.
- Plato, for example, remarked that the helot system was the most controversial example of servitude in Greece.
- 1.1 A serf or slave.
Example sentencesExamples - In addition to being super-exploited, Dubai's helots are also expected to be generally invisible.
- My view is that we really need a new Home Secretary who is wedded to the values our democracy is supposed to represent, not someone who seems to have it as his mission to turn us into a nation of helots.
- The new, networked society of global helots is here and now.
- The ultimate aim was to make South Africa a ‘white man's country’ built on black helots.
- The Nazis apparently intended to reduce Slavs such as the Poles to the status of helots.
Origin Via Latin from Greek Heilōtes (plural), traditionally taken as referring to Helos, a Laconian town whose inhabitants were enslaved. |