Definition of "serfs" [serfs]

• Plural form of serf. (noun)

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• "They became villeins, in short -- serfs bound to the soil by a living wage."
• "As the ‘upper’ class began to lose financial dominance the corporates took over meanwhile the public remain as always subservient to their ‘betters’ in other words serfs by another name."
• "Alexander realized that emancipating the serfs was a precondition for wider reforms, but feared (rightly, as it turned out) that such a move would alienate the nobility, taking away both their property and their source of cheap labor."