serf

as in slave
a person in the past who belonged to a low social class and who lived and worked on land owned by another person Medieval serfs who tended land owned by a lord.

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Noun
  • The country was established with the aim of relocating freed slaves from the United States.
    Michelle Garcia, NBC news, 10 July 2025
  • Schiava, meaning slave in Italian, is thought to be named after its tendency to accumulate to encourage so much fruit and weight that the vine would bend in on itself.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
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  • But the novel also interweaves a repository of 795 poems throughout its roughly 1,300 pages—each written from the one of 118 separate characters’ perspectives, including mothers, servants, emperors, lovers, and Genji himself.
    Andrew Paul Jul 16, Popular Science, 16 July 2025
  • Shalla-Bal was later crowned the Empress of Zenn-La after Radd sacrificed himself to be enslaved as the servant of the planet eater to save his world from obliteration.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 14 July 2025
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“Serf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serf. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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