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# helot

«helot» in Mova's school dictionary: **A helot was one of the people in ancient Sparta who were…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a helot, helots)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (history) A helot was one of the people in ancient Sparta who were made to work the land for the Spartans, almost like slaves, and could not leave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helot/#m1)

2) (formal, rare) A helot is anyone treated like a slave or a serf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helot/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons about ancient Greece it explains how Sparta worked: the helots farmed so that Spartan citizens could train as soldiers; Spartans feared helot rebellions and treated them harshly. It tells the reader about unfree people. Related: serf, slave.

### examples

- The helots farmed the land for the Spartans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helot/#x1)
- There were many more helots than Spartan citizens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helot/#x2)
- Spartans feared that the helots would rebel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helot/#x3)
- Helots could not leave the farms they worked on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helot/#x4)
- The helots rose up against Sparta several times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helot/#x5)
- Spartan boys trained as soldiers while helots grew the food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helot/#x6)

### note

Countable: a helot, helots. Pronounced «HEL-ot». Rare word, mostly in history about Sparta. Helots were not exactly the same as slaves: they belonged to the state and were tied to the land, more like serfs.

### In the corpora

- [Sparta relied on a huge enslaved people, the helots, to farm for them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «helot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/helot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.