serfdom

serfdom
Synonyms and related words:
abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, employ, employment, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, meanness, menialness, ministration, ministry, peonage, restraint, serfhood, servility, servitium, servitorship, servitude, slavery, slavishness, subjection, subjugation, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency, tendance, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, yoke

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  • serfdom — See serf. * * * In medieval Europe, condition of a tenant farmer who was bound to a hereditary plot of land and to the will of his landlord. Serfs differed from slaves in that slaves could be bought and sold without reference to land, whereas… …   Universalium

  • serfdom — [[t]sɜ͟ː(r)fdəm[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT The system of serfdom was the social and economic system by which the owners of land had serfs. 2) N UNCOUNT If someone was in a state of serfdom, they were a serf …   English dictionary

  • Serfdom — Serfage Serf age, Serfdom Serf dom, n. The state or condition of a serf. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • serfdom — serf ► NOUN ▪ (in the feudal system) an agricultural labourer who was tied to working on a particular estate. DERIVATIVES serfdom noun. ORIGIN Latin servus slave …   English terms dictionary

  • Serfdom in Tibet controversy — (This article is about a political debate. Social classes of Tibet is focused on socio economic conditions in Tibet.) The serfdom in Tibet controversy rests on both a political and an academic debate. In the political debate, Chinese sources… …   Wikipedia

  • Serfdom Patent (1781) — The Serfdom Patent of 1781 (German: Leibeigenschaft ) aimed to abolish aspects of the traditional serfdom system of the Habsburg lands through the establishment of basic civil liberties for the serfs.The feudal system bound farmers to inherited… …   Wikipedia

  • serfdom — noun see serf …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • serfdom — noun a) The state of being a serf. b) The feudal system that includes serfs. Syn: serfage, serfhood …   Wiktionary

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