feudal
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- adjective
- /ˈfjuːdəl/
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feudal
- We have what is known as a feudal system, like in the Middle Ages.
- feudal society
- feudal system
- feudal lord
They begin counting people by religion, suddenly shifting belonging from feudal to sectarian.
- They begin counting people by religion, suddenly shifting belonging from feudal to sectarian.
- And so essentially the world order is feudal and it had been since the dawn of time.
- And you know, and all this, they were brought from Poland to Japan, which which was a feudal society.
- And they, they are basically like surfs in the like feudal empires that, that these companies that these platforms have built.
- So for example, a feudal Manor would start to disintegrate, serfs would run away, then run into a town.
- And things have, you know, sort of devolved to essentially kind of a feudal, medieval sort of level with, with some advanced technology in it.
- So he tells us that in feudal societies, what we see a lot of is domination doesn't completely go away, of course, right.
Examples
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The feudal duties of vassals to their lords were a key aspect of medieval society.
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As with other provinces in the Empire, it was administered through a strict feudal system and class order.
Academic text (2015) -
And it is of course, similar to the feudal kind of rent in the sense that it is rent.
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We work as long hours as people did during feudal society.
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I'm aware of the influence of the feudal system in this village.
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The respect reserved for the clergy in feudal times went to the security services.
Academic text (1996) -
England is more static, more structured, more feudal in many respects.
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Many regions experience a return to semitribal or feudal social structures.
Academic text (1999) -
The British freed themselves from the suffocating feudal regulation, centuries before the Europeans.
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"All vestiges of the feudal system with its oppression of the poor were abolished. "
Synonyms
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Relating to a system where local lords rule people by loyalty
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A society where a few owners of land have power and many people work for them
Relating to the old system where lords owned land and ruled villages
Relating to the rights and power of a feudal lord
About a lord and the rights and duties he had over land
About a lord's rights and duties, especially in the Middle Ages
Compounds
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A way of organizing society in the Middle Ages where lords give land and protection to knights who serve them
How Feudal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Feudal comes from a medieval term for a fee, meaning 'land or rights given by a lord to someone in return for service'. So feudal describes a system where land and power were held through these 'fees' and personal loyalty.