jobbágy
C1
Hungarian
villein
NOUN
C1
ARCHAIC
1
villein
C2
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Meaning
unfree medieval peasant tenant
Themes
history
|middle_ages
|feudalism
|peasantry
|social_status
|law
|core_vocabulary
Definition
In medieval Europe, an unfree peasant who farmed land belonging to a lord and was legally bound to that land and to the lord’s control, owing labor and services rather than being fully free.
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