vassal

Noun

vassal (plural vassals)

1. The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
2. A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave.

6 letters in word "vassal": A A L S S V.

No anagrams for vassal found in this word list.

Words found within vassal:

aa aal aals aas al ala alas als as ass ava aval avas la laa laas las lass lav lava lavas lavs sal sals salsa vas vasa vasal

• Definitions:
• A free man who held land (fief) from a lord to whom he paid homage and swore fealty. He owed various services and obligations, primarily military. ...
• A man who promised to be loyal to his lord in return for protection and land
• one who receives the use of and lordship over a certain territory (a fief) from a higher lord, in return for service and loyalty. The vassal is subordinate to his lord, but the term should not be misunderstood as indicating low social status in any broad sense. ...
• a person granted land in return for military service
• A person who held land from a feudal lord and received protection in return for homage and allegiance.
• a subordinate or dependent of a lord or kind; one member of the suzerain-vassal covenant popular in the Ancient Near East (NIV Study Bible).
• a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
• A vassal or liege, in the terminology that both preceded and accompanied the feudalism of medieval Europe, is one who enters into mutual obligations with a lord, usually of military support and mutual protection, in exchange for certain guarantees, which came to include the terrain held as a ...

• vassails ←
• vassail ←
• vasovagal ←
• vassal
• → vassalage
• → vassalages
• → vassaless