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serfdom

/surf-duhm/US // ˈsɜrf dəm //

农奴制度,农奴制

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the condition of being a serf in a position of servitude, required to render services to a lord: He lived in serfdom until 1831 when, at the age of 30, he escaped.
    • : the condition or population of serfs taken as a whole: Her thesis analyzes the phenomenon of serfdom and the manner in which it changed between 1772 and 1848.
    • : servitude of any kind: Technology, in the absence of scientific guidance, is a Pied Piper leading us into industrial serfdom.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounslavery

Examples

  • The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else.

  • Tragically, the Medievalist Subreddit also never seems to address that tricky issue of serfdom—pro or con?

  • Why isn't his first step the abolition of the State Department's outrageous program of state-sponsored serfdom?

  • Another is that the players are exploited in a system that amounts to a kind of serfdom.

  • Obamacare is pushing America down the road to serfdom, but neither its opponents nor advocates seem to have noticed.

  • So such as remain are allowed to live, though it must be owned that their condition is but very little removed from serfdom.

  • We read of Radischeff—the first to point out the horrors of serfdom—who was imprisoned, deported, and died by suicide.

  • And as you look, remember that this fair lass was but a peasant's child, born to serfdom at the best.

  • Ans.: Chattel slavery, serfdom, or feudal slavery and wage slavery.

  • And he declared that he would have abolished serfdom if it had cost him his head—if only civilization had been more advanced.