plural helots
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Helot
: a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta
2
: someone held in forced servitude : an enslaved person or serf
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The 300 Spartans stood at the head of a force of approximately 7,000 other Greeks, not to mention their own helot slaves, who fought as light infantry.
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Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
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Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
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helot
noun
hel·ot
ˈhel-ət 
: an enslaved person or serf
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