Serf vs Vassal - What's the difference?
serf | vassal |
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.
(historical) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave.
* Milton
Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
To subordinate to someone or something.
As nouns the difference between serf and vassal
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 vassal is the grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.As an adjective vassal is
resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.As a verb vassal is
to treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.serf
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (strategy games) peasant, peon, villagerDerived terms
* serfage * serfdom * serfhood * serfish * serfismSee also
* slaveAnagrams
* ----vassal
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Alternative forms
* vasal (rare)Noun
(wikipedia vassal) (en noun)- The vassals of his anger.