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helotry

helotry noun: collectively, the helots (slaves or bondsmen).

Noun

helotry (countable and uncountable, plural helotries)

  1. (Ancient Greece) Collectively, the helots (slaves or bondsmen).
    • Apparently influenced by Montesquieu's judgment that Spartan helotry combined the worst features of slavery and serfdom, Dew credited the Athenians with treating their slaves gently.2005, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 289

helotry meaning in Kannada

helotry in Kannada

ಜೀತವರ್ಗ, ತೊತ್ತುವರ್ಗ, ದಾಸ್ಯ ವರ್ಗ, ಜೀತದಾಳಿನ ವರ್ಗ, ತೊತ್ತುತನ, ಜೀತಗಾರಿಕೆ

Forms of helotry

pluralhelotries

Origin of helotry

From helot + -ry.

Questions about helotry

What does helotry mean?
Helotry means collectively, the helots (slaves or bondsmen).
What is helotry in Kannada?
Helotry in Kannada is ಜೀತವರ್ಗ, ತೊತ್ತುವರ್ಗ, ದಾಸ್ಯ ವರ್ಗ. See Helotry meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is helotry?
Helotry is a noun.
What is the plural of helotry?
The plural of helotry is helotries.

Words near helotry in the dictionary

  1. helotid
  2. helotids
  3. helotism
  4. helotisms
  5. helotries
  6. helotry
  7. helots
  8. help
  9. help a lame dog over a stile
  10. help along
  11. help desk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: helotry (page history and authors); helotry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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