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kmets

kmets is the plural of kmet.

Meaning of kmet

Noun

kmet (plural kmets or kmetovi)

  1. (historical) A serf in Southeastern Europe, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.
    • Suffering from this double disability, social and religious, the Christian ‘kmet,’ or tiller of the soil, is worse off than many a serf in our darkest ages, and lies as completely at the mercy of the Mahometan owner of the soil as if he were a slave.1876, Arthur John Evans, Through Bosnia and Herzegovina On Foot

Questions about kmets

What is kmets the plural of?
Kmets is the plural of kmet.

Words near kmets in the dictionary

  1. Kmeph
  2. kmer
  3. kmers
  4. kmet
  5. kmetovi
  6. kmets
  7. Kmetz
  8. Kmetzes
  9. Kmhmu
  10. Kmiec
  11. Kmiecik

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