HELOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does helot mean? 

• HELOT (noun)
  The noun HELOT has 1 sense:

1. (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

  Familiarity information: HELOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

helot; serf; villein

Hypernyms ("helot" is a kind of...):

thrall (someone held in bondage)

Domain category:

Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)

Domain region:

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "helot"):

cotter; cottier (a medieval English villein)

 Context examples 

A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a second spoonful.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)