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serflike

serflike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a serf.

Adjective

serflike (comparative more serflike, superlative most serflike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a serf.
    • Millions were reduced to serflike conditions where a small white elite dominated different groups of black and white sharecroppers, indebted tenants and permanent debtors virtually enslaved through peonage.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 116

Forms of serflike

comparativemore serflike
superlativemost serflike

Origin of serflike

From serf + -like.

Words formed from serflike

Questions about serflike

What does serflike mean?
Serflike means resembling or characteristic of a serf.
What part of speech is serflike?
Serflike is an adjective.

Words near serflike in the dictionary

  1. serfishly
  2. serfishness
  3. serfism
  4. serfitude
  5. serfless
  6. serflike
  7. serfs
  8. serfship
  9. serg
  10. sergal
  11. sergals

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