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gentry collapse: the most powerful members of a society

lock up collapse: secure by locking; "lock up the house before you go on vacation"

serf collapse: (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord

imprison collapse: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"; confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

liege collapse: city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium; a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service; owing or owed feudal allegiance and service; "one's liege lord"; "a liege subject"

common man collapse

sweetheart collapse: any well-liked individual; "he's a sweetheart"; a person loved by another person; privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically); "another sweetheart deal based on political influence"

man in the street collapse

conquest collapse: success in mastering something difficult; "the conquest of space"; the act of conquering

captive collapse: an animal that is confined; a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion; giving or marked by complete attention to; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought"; in captivity

power collapse: possession of controlling influence; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"; "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade"; one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"; (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second); supply the force or power for the functioning of; "The gasoline powers the engines"

species collapse: a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy"; (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed

monarchy collapse: an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority

peon collapse

capture collapse: the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property; the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board; the act of taking of a person by force; any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle; a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field; capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping; "I caught a rabbit in the trap toady"; succeed in representing or expressing something intangible; "capture the essence of Spring"; "capture an idea"; attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts"; bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit; "This nucleus has captured the slow-moving neutrons"; "The star captured a comet"

convict collapse: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison; a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence; find or declare guilty; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced"

subject collapse: something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"; (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated; (logic) the first term of a proposition; the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love"; a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"; likely to be affected by something (especially something unpleasant); "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"; being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"; make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"; cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"

apprehend collapse: anticipate with dread or anxiety

trusty collapse: a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges

folk collapse: people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

underprivileged collapse: lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society

brood collapse: the young of an animal cared for at one time; sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"; think moodily or anxiously about something; hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"

population collapse: the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"; (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"; a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"; the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"; the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"

totem collapse: emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians); a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object

suppressed collapse: kept from public knowledge by various means;; manifesting or subjected to suppression; "a suppressed press"

country collapse: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"; an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"

tribe collapse: (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily; a federation (as of American Indians); a social division of (usually preliterate) people

seize collapse: affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"; take hold of; grab; "The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals"; take or capture by force; "The terrorists seized the politicians"; "The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages"; hook by a pull on the line; "strike a fish"

vampire collapse: (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

gaol collapse

intern collapse: an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term); work as an intern; "The young doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year"; deprive of freedom; "During WW II, Japanese were interned in camps in the West"

clan collapse

estate collapse: a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights; extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"; everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities

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