Definition of serf in English:

serf

noun səːfsərf

An agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on his lord's estate.
Example sentencesExamples
- Feudal serfs worked at back-breaking labor, dawn to dusk.
- This was a tax paid each year by the serfs to the lord of the manor
- The prosperity of Syracuse and other cities depended on the exploitation of Sicels, who worked the land as serfs, and allowed the emergence of a wealthy agricultural class, sometimes with political results.
- One could argue that the feudal system of lords and serfs was a form of sharecropping.
- Not all medieval peasants were serfs, however.
- If not radically reformed, it will continue to consume our freedom and earnings like a swarm of locusts consumes a wheat field until we in America are no better off than the simple serfs of feudal times.
- The idea that serfs and lords belonged to the same society would have been incomprehensible to people in the feudal era, when elites were not only physically segregated from peasants, but also spoke a different language.
- In feudal times the serfs had to rely on the beneficence of the lord of the manor.
- Because many landlords had lost their serfs, the lords relaxed ancient obligations and duties.
- Those once obliged to be content with the role of feudal serf could now demand high wages and withdraw their labour if they didn't get the freedom and social mobility they requested.
- In feudal times, slaves, serfs, and peasants were forced to work through different mechanisms, but the coercion and social control they experienced was external to work.
- Alexander II realized that to modernize mean that Russia needed to westernize, so in 1861 he emancipated the serfs from bondage.
- Here in the Thirty Years War, the seigneurial system collapsed and serfs refused to perform labour services.
- In the east, in Prussia, Poland, Russia, and the eastern provinces of the Habsburg Monarchy, most of the rural population was bound to the soil and their lords as serfs.
- They took advantage of their large estates, and the feeble position of emancipated serfs, to supply urban markets in western Europe.
- As I've already noted, at the lowest levels what we see is a slow but steady change from a countryside populated by slaves to one populated by peasants and serfs.
- At their worst, these would have put the life of a poor labourer and his family on a par with or perhaps below that of an American slave or a Russian serf.
- Such priests might very well be freed serfs, recruited from the very peasantry they baptized and buried; the social distance between their flock and themselves was minimal, if any existed at all.
- The previous neatly ordered view of the universe, with the Earth at the centre, reinforced the rigid feudal order with serfs at the bottom and the Pope at the pinnacle.
- The nobility were the men who reaped the most benefits from the emancipation of the serfs and the subsequent increase in agricultural productivity.
Synonyms
bondsman, slave, servant, menial, villein, thrall, helot, ceorl
vassal, liegeman

Derivatives

serfage

noun

When the Emancipation question was raised there was a considerable diversity of opinion as to the effect which the abolition of serfage would have on the material interests of the two classes directly concerned.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Village Assemblies, too, have become worse than they were in the days of serfage.

serfhood

noun

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense 'slave'): from Old French, from Latin servus 'slave'.

Rhymes

scurf, surf, turf

Definition of serf in US English:

serf

nounsərfsərf

An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.
Example sentencesExamples
- The nobility were the men who reaped the most benefits from the emancipation of the serfs and the subsequent increase in agricultural productivity.
- Those once obliged to be content with the role of feudal serf could now demand high wages and withdraw their labour if they didn't get the freedom and social mobility they requested.
- Feudal serfs worked at back-breaking labor, dawn to dusk.
- The prosperity of Syracuse and other cities depended on the exploitation of Sicels, who worked the land as serfs, and allowed the emergence of a wealthy agricultural class, sometimes with political results.
- Here in the Thirty Years War, the seigneurial system collapsed and serfs refused to perform labour services.
- One could argue that the feudal system of lords and serfs was a form of sharecropping.
- As I've already noted, at the lowest levels what we see is a slow but steady change from a countryside populated by slaves to one populated by peasants and serfs.
- In feudal times the serfs had to rely on the beneficence of the lord of the manor.
- The idea that serfs and lords belonged to the same society would have been incomprehensible to people in the feudal era, when elites were not only physically segregated from peasants, but also spoke a different language.
- At their worst, these would have put the life of a poor labourer and his family on a par with or perhaps below that of an American slave or a Russian serf.
- Alexander II realized that to modernize mean that Russia needed to westernize, so in 1861 he emancipated the serfs from bondage.
- In feudal times, slaves, serfs, and peasants were forced to work through different mechanisms, but the coercion and social control they experienced was external to work.
- If not radically reformed, it will continue to consume our freedom and earnings like a swarm of locusts consumes a wheat field until we in America are no better off than the simple serfs of feudal times.
- In the east, in Prussia, Poland, Russia, and the eastern provinces of the Habsburg Monarchy, most of the rural population was bound to the soil and their lords as serfs.
- They took advantage of their large estates, and the feeble position of emancipated serfs, to supply urban markets in western Europe.
- The previous neatly ordered view of the universe, with the Earth at the centre, reinforced the rigid feudal order with serfs at the bottom and the Pope at the pinnacle.
- Not all medieval peasants were serfs, however.
- Because many landlords had lost their serfs, the lords relaxed ancient obligations and duties.
- Such priests might very well be freed serfs, recruited from the very peasantry they baptized and buried; the social distance between their flock and themselves was minimal, if any existed at all.
- This was a tax paid each year by the serfs to the lord of the manor
Synonyms
bondsman, slave, servant, menial, villein, thrall, helot, ceorl

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense ‘slave’): from Old French, from Latin servus ‘slave’.

单词	serf
释义	Definition of serf in English: serf noun səːfsərf An agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on his lord's estate. Example sentencesExamples Feudal serfs worked at back-breaking labor, dawn to dusk. This was a tax paid each year by the serfs to the lord of the manor The prosperity of Syracuse and other cities depended on the exploitation of Sicels, who worked the land as serfs, and allowed the emergence of a wealthy agricultural class, sometimes with political results. One could argue that the feudal system of lords and serfs was a form of sharecropping. Not all medieval peasants were serfs, however. If not radically reformed, it will continue to consume our freedom and earnings like a swarm of locusts consumes a wheat field until we in America are no better off than the simple serfs of feudal times. The idea that serfs and lords belonged to the same society would have been incomprehensible to people in the feudal era, when elites were not only physically segregated from peasants, but also spoke a different language. In feudal times the serfs had to rely on the beneficence of the lord of the manor. Because many landlords had lost their serfs, the lords relaxed ancient obligations and duties. Those once obliged to be content with the role of feudal serf could now demand high wages and withdraw their labour if they didn't get the freedom and social mobility they requested. In feudal times, slaves, serfs, and peasants were forced to work through different mechanisms, but the coercion and social control they experienced was external to work. Alexander II realized that to modernize mean that Russia needed to westernize, so in 1861 he emancipated the serfs from bondage. Here in the Thirty Years War, the seigneurial system collapsed and serfs refused to perform labour services. In the east, in Prussia, Poland, Russia, and the eastern provinces of the Habsburg Monarchy, most of the rural population was bound to the soil and their lords as serfs. They took advantage of their large estates, and the feeble position of emancipated serfs, to supply urban markets in western Europe. As I've already noted, at the lowest levels what we see is a slow but steady change from a countryside populated by slaves to one populated by peasants and serfs. At their worst, these would have put the life of a poor labourer and his family on a par with or perhaps below that of an American slave or a Russian serf. Such priests might very well be freed serfs, recruited from the very peasantry they baptized and buried; the social distance between their flock and themselves was minimal, if any existed at all. The previous neatly ordered view of the universe, with the Earth at the centre, reinforced the rigid feudal order with serfs at the bottom and the Pope at the pinnacle. The nobility were the men who reaped the most benefits from the emancipation of the serfs and the subsequent increase in agricultural productivity. Synonyms bondsman, slave, servant, menial, villein, thrall, helot, ceorl vassal, liegeman Derivatives serfage noun When the Emancipation question was raised there was a considerable diversity of opinion as to the effect which the abolition of serfage would have on the material interests of the two classes directly concerned. Example sentencesExamples The Village Assemblies, too, have become worse than they were in the days of serfage. serfhood noun Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'slave'): from Old French, from Latin servus 'slave'. Rhymes scurf, surf, turf Definition of serf in US English: serf nounsərfsərf An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. Example sentencesExamples The nobility were the men who reaped the most benefits from the emancipation of the serfs and the subsequent increase in agricultural productivity. Those once obliged to be content with the role of feudal serf could now demand high wages and withdraw their labour if they didn't get the freedom and social mobility they requested. Feudal serfs worked at back-breaking labor, dawn to dusk. The prosperity of Syracuse and other cities depended on the exploitation of Sicels, who worked the land as serfs, and allowed the emergence of a wealthy agricultural class, sometimes with political results. Here in the Thirty Years War, the seigneurial system collapsed and serfs refused to perform labour services. One could argue that the feudal system of lords and serfs was a form of sharecropping. As I've already noted, at the lowest levels what we see is a slow but steady change from a countryside populated by slaves to one populated by peasants and serfs. In feudal times the serfs had to rely on the beneficence of the lord of the manor. The idea that serfs and lords belonged to the same society would have been incomprehensible to people in the feudal era, when elites were not only physically segregated from peasants, but also spoke a different language. At their worst, these would have put the life of a poor labourer and his family on a par with or perhaps below that of an American slave or a Russian serf. Alexander II realized that to modernize mean that Russia needed to westernize, so in 1861 he emancipated the serfs from bondage. In feudal times, slaves, serfs, and peasants were forced to work through different mechanisms, but the coercion and social control they experienced was external to work. If not radically reformed, it will continue to consume our freedom and earnings like a swarm of locusts consumes a wheat field until we in America are no better off than the simple serfs of feudal times. In the east, in Prussia, Poland, Russia, and the eastern provinces of the Habsburg Monarchy, most of the rural population was bound to the soil and their lords as serfs. They took advantage of their large estates, and the feeble position of emancipated serfs, to supply urban markets in western Europe. The previous neatly ordered view of the universe, with the Earth at the centre, reinforced the rigid feudal order with serfs at the bottom and the Pope at the pinnacle. Not all medieval peasants were serfs, however. Because many landlords had lost their serfs, the lords relaxed ancient obligations and duties. Such priests might very well be freed serfs, recruited from the very peasantry they baptized and buried; the social distance between their flock and themselves was minimal, if any existed at all. This was a tax paid each year by the serfs to the lord of the manor Synonyms bondsman, slave, servant, menial, villein, thrall, helot, ceorl Origin Late 15th century (in the sense ‘slave’): from Old French, from Latin servus ‘slave’.
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