🔤 Colonus ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
Roman zamindar, mazara, tenant farmer, kashtkar, kisan
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ENGLISH
📚noun
colonus
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /kəˈloʊnəs/
Phonetic: /kuh loh nus/
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DEFINITION
a tenant farmer in the later Roman Empire bound to the land, a cultivator required to pay rent usually in produce, an agricultural laborer
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
The colonus worked the estate but could not leave the land freely.
A colonus paid rent to the Roman landowner each harvest.
The colonus family cultivated wheat on the vast estate.
Laws gradually bound each colonus to his assigned farmland.
The colonus represented an early form of medieval serfdom.
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