Serfs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SERFS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• SERF, a person in modified slavery, esp. one bound to work on the land
• an agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on his lord's estate.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a feudal slave

Words related to SERFS

serf7

Words that contain SERFS

enserfs10 serfship16 serfships17

How to use SERFS in a sentence

• A faint ray of Roman civilisation had reached him through generations of slaves and serfs and shepherds.
• A race of serfs now cultivated the domains of haughty lords and imperious priests.
• The time came when they had no direct masters, and when the almost absolute dependence of serfs was changed by the nobles requiring them to farm the land and pay tithes and fees.
• The serfs worked, the count told the boys, without pay, but they had so many days in each month when they cultivated the land which was common to the village.
• Much of his legislation shows this, and that he was aware that the time must come when the serfs could no longer be deprived of their freedom.
• The Tzar now sought to foster other good efforts, especially those made by some earnest nobles to free their serfs by will.
• The serfs, when standing for great ideas, will die rather than yield.
• It was said, that, if the serfs lost the protection of their owners, they might fall a prey to rapacious officials.
• The Saxons became serfs, and the Normans used the school tax to build large, repulsive castles in which to woo the handcuffed Anglo-Saxon maiden at their leisure.
• He liked the simple life of the Cossacks, and quarrelled with those of his comrades who were inclined to the Warsaw party, calling them serfs of the Polish nobles.
• A nobility and a priesthood which survived unchanged from the middle ages held sway over serfs and made war upon savages.
• The Chou used Shang and other slaves as domestic servants for their numerous nobility, and Shang serfs as farm labourers on their estates.
• Whenever the lord found it necessary, the serfs had to perform also other services for the lord.
• The restrictions which, for instance, had made the craftsmen and artisans almost into serfs, were gradually lifted.
• Those peasants who owned no land were his serfs, passing with the land from master to master.
• See KNIGHT, Joseph, SOMERSET, James, and under SCOTLAND, serfs.
• Serfs freed from their inherited obligations could now seek employment wherever they would, and landowners, now no longer lords, might employ whom they pleased.
• For the time being they were his slaves, his serfs, his beasts of burden, his draught animals, no better than the dogs straining in the traces beside them.
• The landed proprietors with their serfs in the ranks were ruined, and had not money with which to pay the taxes, upon which the prosecution of a hopeless war depended.
• First came a crowd of serfs, men, women, and children, all shouting in joyful anticipation of the wedding feast.
• But to teach those who did the labor of the world, its peasants and its serfs, was regarded by both Church and State as a folly and a menace.
• Fourth, the Sudras, or conquered non-Aryan tribes, who became serfs.
• The serfs were judged by the noble upon whose land they were.
• Twenty million serfs belonging to private owners, and 30,000,000 more, the serfs of the Crown were set free.
• Without our example the English lower classes would still be serfs.
• They had then ruled with a rod of iron the serfs who cultivated their land, and toiled and died for them.
• He fished, hunted, and petted the pretty little daughter of his housekeeper, one of his serfs, whom he vaguely intended to set free.
• It was a natural and pleasing delusion, born of the possession of land and serfs, to which the Virginians themselves gave ready credence.
• There were, however, a party of serfs kept at work, and also some masons, and rumour had it that they were engaged in making the secret passages.
• The vast majority consisted of slaves, serfs, war captives, and tenant farmers.
• I dismissed my three serfs with a wave of the hand, and went up the beach into the thickets.
• Guard it with your life from the enemies of the duke, and if you meet the serfs of Stramen, proclaim your errand.

Similar words containing SERF without suffix s

serf7 enserf9 enserfs10 serfage11 serfdom13 serfish13 enserfed12 serfages12 serfdoms14 serfhood15 serflike15 serfship16 enserfing13 serfhoods16 serfships17 enserfment15 enserfments16

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