| serf | | |
| n. (person) | 1. helot, serf, villein | (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord. |
| ~ europe | the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles. |
| ~ cottier, cotter | a medieval English villein. |
| ~ thrall | someone held in bondage. |
| ~ dark ages, middle ages | the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. |
| slave | | |
| n. (person) | 1. slave | a person who is owned by someone. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ bondsman, bondman | a male slave. |
| ~ bondmaid, bondwoman, bondswoman | a female slave. |
| ~ bond servant | someone bound to labor without wages. |
| ~ puppet, creature, tool | a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else. |
| ~ galley slave | a slave condemned to row in a galley. |
| ~ dred scott, scott | United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858). |
| ~ nat turner, turner | United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831). |
| ~ denmark vesey, vesey | United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822). |
| n. (person) | 2. hard worker, slave, striver | someone who works as hard as a slave. |
| ~ worker | a person who works at a specific occupation.; "he is a good worker" |
| n. (person) | 3. slave | someone entirely dominated by some influence or person.; "a slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| v. (social) | 4. break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down, slave | work very hard, like a slave. |
| ~ do work, work | be employed.; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college" |
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