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helot

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɛlət/Part of speech nounSorted ehlotStarts with HEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From Latin Hīlōta, from Ancient Greek Εἵλωτες (Heílōtes), possibly from ἁλίσκομαι (halískomai, “to be captured, to be made prisoner”) or from Ἕλος (Hélos, “Elos”), a Laconian town.

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  • A man who conceives and writes a great book, my friend, has done more work than all the helots that laboured on these pyramidal futilities.

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