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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 lordplay

    Synonyms:

    helot; serf; villein

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    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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