Definitions for serf

serf serf

Spelling: [surf]
IPA: /sɜrf/

Serf is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in serf (efrs).

Definitions for serf

noun

  1. a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
  2. a slave.

Origin of serf

1475-85; Middle French Latin servus slave

Examples for serf

"I give not the pip of an apple for king or for noble," cried the serf passionately.

You saw the reaction of the Duke when he realized that Flor was actually a serf?

But I will tell you what: my mother's grandfather was a peasant—a serf.

Taking the serf's head in his hands, he kissed him on both cheeks.

Yes; but if he had not been discontented, he would have been a serf still!

The slave became the serf; that is, he could be shut in, but not shut out.

The main division, the widest gulf, divided the feudal lord and the serf.

As to the serf, he did not consider that a boon had been bestowed upon him.

The serf persecutes the Jew because he is himself persecuted by the nobility.

Similarly, he could tell his slave to run, but he could only tell his serf to stay.

Word Value for serf
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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