serfdom

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

serfdom
    n 1: the state of a serf [syn: {serfdom}, {serfhood},
         {vassalage}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Serfage \Serf"age\, Serfdom \Serf"dom\, n.
   The state or condition of a serf.
   [1913 Webster] Serfhood

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "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