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Serf vs Perf - What's the difference?

serf | perf |

As a noun serf

is a partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.

As an abbreviation perf is

perforation or perforated. When followed by a number, eg, perf 14, this indicates the number of perforations per two centimetres.

serf

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
  • A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
  • (strategy games) A worker unit.

    • Synonyms

    * (strategy games) peasant, peon, villager

    Derived terms

    * serfage * serfdom * serfhood * serfish * serfism

    Related terms

    * service * servile * servitor * servitude * servo

    See also

    * slave

    Anagrams

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    perf

    English

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • (philately) perforation or perforated. When followed by a number, eg, perf 14 , this indicates the number of perforations per two centimetres.
  • (grammar)
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