Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kmet

/kmɛt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

Syllables: kmet
IPA: /kmɛt/

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A serf in Southeastern Europe, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.

Example Sentences

"Suffering from this double disability, social and religious, the Christian ‘kmet,’ or tiller of the soil, is worse off than many a serf in our darkest ages, and lies as completely at the mercy of the Mahometan owner of the soil as if he were a slave."
"The authorities repeatedly emphasized that the kmet was not bound to his master, to counter allegations equating kmet tenure with servile status."
"In any case, the Serbian kmets who remained within the old estate system on the eve of the First World War were not especially badly off by the standards of early twentieth-century peasant Europe […]"

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian kmȅt. Doublet of count and comes.

Word Breakdown

Root: kmȅt

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /kmɛt/

Inflected Forms

kmets (plural) kmetovi (plural)

Rhymes With

get let set yet working set met forget internet beat heat bet net

Questions

How do you pronounce kmet?: The recorded pronunciation is /kmɛt/.
What does kmet mean?: A serf in Southeastern Europe, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.
Where does kmet come from?: From Serbo-Croatian kmȅt. Doublet of count and comes.

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