feudal
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- adjective
- /ˈfjuːdəl/
- We have what is known as a feudal system, like in the Middle Ages.
- feudal society
- feudal system
- feudal lord
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Watch on YouTubeThey 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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8.9
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
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Relating to the rights and power of a feudal lord
Relating to the old system where lords owned land and ruled villages
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.