Serf vs Slaver - What's the difference?
serf | slaver |
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.
To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
To fawn.
To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
To be besmeared with saliva.
saliva running from the mouth; drool
* Alexander Pope
a person engaged in the slave trade
white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'
(nautical) a ship used to transport slaves
As nouns the difference between serf and slaver
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 slaver is saliva running from the mouth; drool.As a verb slaver is
to drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.serf
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (strategy games) peasant, peon, villagerDerived terms
* serfage * serfdom * serfhood * serfish * serfismSee also
* slaveAnagrams
* ----slaver
English
Etymology 1
From medieval English slaveren, of Scandinavian origin, akin to or derived from (etyl) slafra "to slaver", probably imitativeVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (emit saliva ): drool, slobberNoun
(-)- Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.
