how to pronounce serf

/sɜːf/

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serf is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of serf in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… grandfather had been a serf who served …”

meanings of serf

noun:

A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
A worker unit.

serf frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word serf occurs in english on average 0.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics serf can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that serf can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;