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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-05-14 and was most recently seen on 2026-05-14.
A churl, in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man" or more particularly a "free man", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelled ċeorl(e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it later came to mean the opposite of nobility and royalty, "a common person". Says Chadwick:we find that the distinction between thegn and ceorl is from the time of Aethelstan the broad line of demarcation between the classes of society.
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