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villainage

villainage is the alternative form of villeinage.

Meaning of villeinage

Noun

villeinage (countable and uncountable, plural villeinages)

  1. The state of being a villein.
  2. A feudal system involving villeins; serfdom.

Forms of villainage

pluralvillainages

Questions about villainage

What is villainage the alternative form of?
Villainage is the alternative form of villeinage.

Words near villainage in the dictionary

  1. Villagranas
  2. Villagrans
  3. Villahermosa
  4. villain
  5. villain of the week
  6. villainage
  7. villainages
  8. villaindom
  9. villained
  10. villainess
  11. villainesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: villainage (page history and authors); villeinage (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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