Vassal

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  • noun. A person who held land from a feudal lord and received protection in return for homage and allegiance.
  • noun. A bondman; a slave.
  • noun. A subordinate or dependent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A feudatory tenant; one holding lands by the obligation to render military service or its equivalent to his superior, especially in contradistinction to rear vassal and vavasor; a vassal of the first order—that is, one holding directly from the king. Compare great vassal, below.
  • noun. A subject; a dependent; a retainer; a servant; one who attends on or does the will of another.
  • noun. A bondman; a slave.
  • noun. A low wretch.
  • Servile; subservient.
  • To subject to vassalage; enslave; treat as a vassal.
  • To command; rise over or above; dominate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
  • noun. The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
  • noun. A subject; a dependent; a servant; a bondman; a slave.
  • noun. the vassal of a vassal; an arriere vassal.
  • transitive verb. To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave.
  • adjective. Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
  • verb. To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
  • verb. To subordinate to someone or something.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
    • Word Usage
    "But five years on, George Bush and Dick Cheney are putting the screws on their Green Zone government to sign a secret deal for indefinite military occupation, which would effectively reduce Iraq to a long-term vassal state. ""
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    lord  
    cross-reference
    feudatory  great vassal  rear vassal  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    follower  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Basle  Brasil  Cassel  Castle  Kassel  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adherent  adviser  ally  ambassador  baron  
    Synonym
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    bondmaid  bondman  bondman  bondslave  bondsman  
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