Geneat

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent. historical

    "The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semiservile."

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"The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semiservile."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English ġenēat (“companion, follower, follower in battle; dependant, vassal, tenant who works for a lord”). Cognate with German Genosse (“comrade, etc.”)

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