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What is "vassal" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does vassal mean in English? Meaning of vassal definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "vassal" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "vassal": a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord

Noun

  • Meaning: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
  • Synonyms: feudatory liege liege subject liegeman vassal
  • Hypernyms: follower
  • Adjective: (historical) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave. Milton The vassals of his anger.Milton The vassals of his anger.

    • Synonyms:

    serf, liege, slave, dependent, thrall, beneficiary, peasant, subordinate, varlet, tenant, subject, helot, liegeman, bondman, esne,

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