Associations to the word «Serf»

Wiktionary

SERF, noun. A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
SERF, noun. A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
SERF, noun. (strategy games) A worker unit.

Dictionary definition

SERF, noun. (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats