Значение

значений: 6
  1. A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner.

  2. A bondman or serf.

  3. (шире, пренебрежительное)A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.

    Kerl

    грубия́нgrubiján, мужла́нmužlán, хамxam

    a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

  4. (шире)A freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.

  5. (архаичное, шире)A countryman, a peasant, a rustic.

  6. (архаичное, шире)A person who is stingy, especially with money; a selfish miser, a niggard.

    a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

Переводы

языков: 7
Русский
rough, surly, ill-bred person — see also boor:
Deutsch
rough, surly, ill-bred person — see also boor:

Происхождение

Inherited from West Midland Middle English churle (“person not of the nobility or clergy;

Inherited from West Midland Middle English churle (“person not of the nobility or clergy; serf, servant, simpleton, fellow”, East Midland Middle English cherl), from Old English ċeorl (“freeman ranking below a þegn but above a thrall; commoner, peasant; countryman, husbandman; man; husband”), from Proto-West Germanic *kerl, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz (“elder; man”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (“to grow old; to mature”). Doublet of carl /carle, ceorl, and karl.

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Формы

мн. число: churls
Ед. числоchurl
Мн. числоchurls

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 92
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Однокоренные

связанных слов: 5

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