Noun:

कृषि-मज़दूर, खेत जोतनेवाला दास, कृषक दास, ग़ुलाम, कम्मी,

serfs's Usage Examples:

By these measures the counts became citizens, the rural population ceased to rank as serfs, and the Italo-Roman population of the towns absorbed into itself the remnants of Franks, Germans and other foreign stocks.

There is little trace of serfs in Babylonia, unless the muskinu be really a serf.

Below him ranked the newly converted Moslem aristocracy, who adopted the dress, titles and etiquette of the Turkish court, without relinquishing their language or many of their old customs. They dwelt in fortified towns or castles, where the vali was only admitted on sufferance for a few days; and, at the outset, they formed a separate military caste, headed by 48 kapetans - landholders exercising unfettered authority over their retainers and Christian serfs, but bound, in return, to provide a company of mounted troops for the service of their sovereign.

The service was usually discharged by slaves and serfs, but the amelu (and perhaps the muskinu) went to war.

But she was good to all, not even forgetting the serfs.

Hurry off and tell Maksim, the gardener, to set the serfs to work.

The serfs, whose wrongs seldom attracted notice in an age indifferent to the claims of common humanity, found a friend in this severe monarch, and he protected even the despised and persecuted Jews.

Sonya, Natasha, Petya, Anna Mikhaylovna, Vera, and the old count were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing.

Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles!

On other estates the serfs' compulsory labor was commuted for a quitrent.

Synonyms:

helot, thrall, villein, cotter, cottier,