A helot is a serf or a slave.
A helot is a serf or a slave.
| Front | helot \HEL-uht, HEE-luht\ |
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| Back | noun A serf or slave. [After Helos, a town in Laconia in ancient Greece, whose inhabitants were enslaved. First recorded use: 1579. Another word derived from the name of a town in Laconia is spartan, which is coined after Sparta, the capital of Laconia. And Laconia has a word coined after it too: laconic.] "Many wind up in jobs irrelevant to their training. That helot frothing your coffee expected to become a barrister, not a barista." |
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