Usually means: Free peasant in Anglo-Saxon England.
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  1. ceorl: Merriam-Webster
  2. ceorl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ceorl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ceorl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ceorl, ceorl: Wordnik
  6. ceorl: Wiktionary
  7. ceorl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ceorl: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ceorl, ceorl: Dictionary.com
  10. Ceorl (disambiguation), Ceorl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ceorl: FreeDictionary.org
  12. ceorl: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (historical) An Anglo-Saxon churl.

Similar:
eorlcundman, eorl, Ethel, orling, chavdom, ethelborn, Churchward, Christian, earless, Colchestrian, more...

Opposite:
noble, aristocrat, lord, elite

Types:
freeman, churl, thane, thegn, knight, more...

Adjectives:
free, english, beo, landless, ordinary, anglosaxon, agricultural, primitive, meanest, prosperous, normal

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Similar:
eorlcundman, eorl, Ethel, orling, chavdom, ethelborn, Churchward, Christian, earless, Colchestrian, more...

Opposite:
noble, aristocrat, lord, elite

Types:
freeman, churl, thane, thegn, knight, more...

Adjectives:
free, english, beo, landless, ordinary, anglosaxon, agricultural, primitive, meanest, prosperous, normal



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