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Villein

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One of a class of feudal serfs who held the legal status of freemen in their dealings with all people except their lord.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A feudal tenant.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See villain, 1.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

See villain.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

Word Usage

"Vinogradoff and others have conclusively established that there was not a real difference in status between the so-called villein regardant and villein in gross, and that in any case the villein was not properly a slave but rather a serf. ["

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

thrall

Variant

villain

Hyponym

cotter cottier

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