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VILLAINAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does villainage mean?
• VILLAINAGE (noun)
The noun VILLAINAGE has 1 sense:
1. the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf
Familiarity information: VILLAINAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
villainage; villeinage
Hypernyms ("villainage" is a kind of...):
legal status (a status defined by law)
servitude (state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment)
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