SERFS Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

serfs

noun

plural of serf

as in slaves

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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Recent Examples of serfs Slaves, serfs, peasants, and wage workers mostly understood that what was being struck was a hammer blow on their behalf. —

Jack Sheehan september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025

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Noun

He's heard that if a black person becomes president, white people become slaves.

— Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
The park service removed explanatory panels last month from Independence National Historical Park, the site where George and Martha Washington lived with nine of their slaves in the 1790s, when Philadelphia was briefly the nation’s capital.

— Matthew Daly, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026