Definitions for Helot

Helot Hel·ot

Spelling: [hel-uh t, hee-luh t]
IPA: /ˈhɛl ət, ˈhi lət/

Helot is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in Helot (ehlot).

Definitions for Helot

noun

  1. a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
  2. (lowercase) a serf or slave; bondman.

Origin of Helot

1570-80; Latin hēlōtēs (plural) Greek heílōtes

Examples for Helot

From the king to the Helot 143, the spirit of covetousness spread like a disease.

This is not the middle ages; I am an Englishman, not a Helot.

Paragot did not include my seeing him make a Helot of himself as part of my education.

His cheeks bright red, his chin wet with spittle, the Helot would weave and stagger and totter until he passed out in the dirt.

We have likened the Norman to the Spartan, and, most of all, he was like him in his scorn of the Helot.

She declared however that Angela was wholesome to her, as a tipsy Helot was to the Spartans.

He was a Helot in the great hunt of Helots that the masters were making.

It may actually have been the unfortunate fall to which the Helot owed his death.

Still the Helot had in him the common sentiments of our nature.

But this was a rare spark of self-respect on the part of the Helot.

Word Value for Helot
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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