serfdom

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: serf=dom

CIDE DICTIONARY

serfdom, n. 

 The state or condition of a serf.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

serfdom

abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, employ, employment, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, meanness, menialness, ministration, ministry, peonage, restraint, serfhood, servility, servitium, servitorship, servitude, slavery, slavishness, subjection, subjugation, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency, tendance, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, yoke

ROGET THESAURUS

serfdom

Subjection

N subjection, dependence, dependency, subordination, thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom, feudalism, feudality, vassalage, villenage, slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude, conquest, service, servitude, servitorship, tendence, employ, tutelage, clientship, liability, constraint, oppression, yoke, submission, obedience, subject, dependent, subordinate, feudal, feudatory, in subjection to, under control, in leading strings, in harness, subjected, enslaved, constrained, downtrodden, overborne, overwhelmed, under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked, the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of, under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb, a slave to, at the mercy of, in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of, at the feet of, at one's beck and call, liable, parasitical, stipendiary, under, slaves - in a land of light and law.