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VILLEIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("villein" is a kind of...):
thrall (someone held in bondage)
Domain category:
Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)
Domain region:
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "villein"):
cotter; cottier (a medieval English villein)
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