feudal lord

English

Noun

feudal lord (plural feudal lords)

A lord in a feudal system, one who bestows fiefs on vassals in exchange for homage, fealty, and obligations of personal services or rent.

Synonyms

lord, liege lord; laird (chiefly Scottish contexts); seigneur (chiefly French contexts)

Hyponyms

lord paramount, mesne lord, chief lord, castellan, chatelain, knight banneret

Translations

lord in a feudal system

Dutch: leenheer (nl) m
Finnish: lääninherra, feodaaliherra
Icelandic: lénsherra (is) m
Macedonian: феуда́лец m (feudálec)
Portuguese: senhor feudal (pt)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: феуда́лац m

Roman: feudálac (sh) m
Turkish: derebeyi (tr)

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