At the end of 2012, the Belarusian president re-introduced serfdom by forbidding the workers of Borisovdrev to quit their jobs.
Source: tatoeba (2939996)
Serfdom
//ˈsɚfdəm//
Synonyms for "serfdom" (53 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (26)
Related word relations
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Translations
53 translations across 26 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- крепостничество noun (feudal system)
Catalan
1 entries- servitud noun (state of being a serf)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 農奴制 /农奴制 noun (feudal system)
- 農奴身份 /农奴身份 noun (state of being a serf)
Czech
1 entries- nevolnictví noun (feudal system)
Danish
2 entries- livegenskab noun (state of being a serf)
- livegenskab noun (feudal system)
Dutch
2 entries- horigheid noun (feudal system)
- lijfeigenschap noun (state of being a serf)
Erzya
1 entries- модаречи noun (feudal system)
Estonian
2 entries- pärisorjus noun (state of being a serf)
- pärisorjus noun (feudal system)
Finnish
2 entries- maaorjuus noun (state of being a serf)
- maaorjuus noun (feudal system)
French
2 entries- servage noun (state of being a serf)
- servage noun (feudal system)
German
4 entries- Eigenbehörigkeit noun (state of being a serf)
- Eigenbehörigkeit noun (feudal system)
- Leibeigenschaft noun (state of being a serf)
- Leibeigenschaft noun (feudal system)
Hungarian
2 entries- jobbágyság noun (state of being a serf)
- jobbágyság noun (feudal system)
Irish
4 entries- daoirse noun (state of being a serf)
- daoirse noun (feudal system)
- seirfeachas noun (state of being a serf)
- seirfeachas noun (feudal system)
Italian
2 entries- servitù noun (state of being a serf)
- servitù della gleba noun (feudal system)
Japanese
1 entries- 農奴制 noun (feudal system)
Lithuanian
1 entries- baudžiava noun (state of being a serf)
Māori
1 entries- rōpātanga noun (state of being a serf)
Norwegian
1 entries- livegenskap noun (feudal system)
Polish
2 entries- pańszczyzna noun (state of being a serf)
- poddaństwo noun (feudal system)
Portuguese
2 entries- servidão noun (state of being a serf)
- servidão noun (feudal system)
Russian
4 entries- крепостни́чество noun (state of being a serf)
- крепостно́е пра́во noun (feudal system)
- нево́ля noun (state of being a serf)
- ра́бство noun (state of being a serf)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kmètstvo noun (feudal system)
- кмѐтство noun (feudal system)
Spanish
2 entries- servidumbre noun (state of being a serf)
- servidumbre noun (feudal system)
Swedish
3 entries- livegenskap noun (state of being a serf)
- livegenskap noun (feudal system)
- träldom noun (state of being a serf)
Ukrainian
4 entries- кріпацтво noun (state of being a serf)
- кріпацтво noun (feudal system)
- кріпаччина noun (state of being a serf)
- кріпаччина noun (feudal system)
Welsh
1 entries- taeogaeth noun (state of being a serf)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
When was serfdom abolished in Russia?
Source: tatoeba (10000681)
Serfdom in Russia was only abolished in 1861.
Source: tatoeba (10000682)
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