fief
Land held of a superior, particularly on condition of homage, fealty, and personal…Land held of a superior, particularly on condition of homage, fealty, and personal service, especially military service.
» Technofeudalism is like a modern version of feudalism in which the fiefs are in the digital world rather than the physical world.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, historical, uncountable)Land held of a superior, particularly on condition of homage, fealty, and personal service, especially military service.
Lehen
фео́дfeód
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)Synonym of estate: any land, when considered as a region over which the owner exercises lordly control.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A territory, a domain, an area over which one exercises lordly control, particularly with regard to corporate or governmental bureaucracies.
Herrschaftsbereich
- a piece of land held under the feudal system
Examples
1 sentencesTechnofeudalism is like a modern version of feudalism in which the fiefs are in the digital world rather than the physical world.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle French fief, from Old French fief, from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feuFrom Middle French fief, from Old French fief, from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (whence also Old French fieu, fied), from Old Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep”), from Proto-Indo-European *peku-, *peḱu- (“sheep”). Doublet of fee, feud, and feoff.
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Forms
plural: fiefsSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable