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

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  • The helot, less hardened, dropped her clipboard with a yelp.
  • Explain the following terms: oracle; amphictyony; helot; Hellas;
  • The colonists, lead by Phalanthus, were Partheniae, children of Spartan men and helot women.
  • As the master race, the fascists felt entitled to reduce neighboring states to helot status.
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