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Serf vs Rube - What's the difference?

serf | rube |

As nouns the difference between serf and rube

is that 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 while rube is beet.

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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    rube

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Reub

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
  • (pejorative) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "rube")