Fief

//fiːf//

Synonyms for "fief" (30 found)

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Translations

39 translations across 25 languages.

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Bengali

1 entries
  • অওসত noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • феодално владение noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Catalan

1 entries
  • feu noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 封土 noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)
  • 封地 noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)
  • 封邑 noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)
  • 爵土 noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Czech

1 entries
  • léno noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Danish

1 entries
  • len noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Dutch

1 entries
  • leen noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • feŭdo noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Finnish

3 entries
  • läänitys noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)
  • tontti noun (area of dominion)
  • valtakunta noun (area of dominion)

French

1 entries
  • fief noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Galician

3 entries
  • bacelo noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)
  • couto noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)
  • feudo noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

German

2 entries
  • Herrschaftsbereich noun (area of dominion)
  • Lehen noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • hűbér noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)
  • hűbérbirtok noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Italian

1 entries
  • feudo noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 封土 noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Latin

2 entries
  • feudum noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)
  • rēgnum noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • феуд noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Polish

3 entries
  • domena noun (area of dominion)
  • feudum noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)
  • lenno noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • feudo noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Romagnol

1 entries
  • féud noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Romanian

1 entries
  • fief noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Russian

1 entries
  • фео́д noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Spanish

1 entries
  • feudo noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Swedish

1 entries
  • förläning noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Turkish

1 entries
  • yurtluk noun (An estate held with feudal obligations)

Sample sentences

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That daimyo holds a fief yielding 100,000 koku of rice.

Source: tatoeba (326823)

Sark is part of the English Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy, France. It is a royal fief, part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and has its own set of laws based on Norman law, its own parliament, and exchequer.

Source: tatoeba (12121532)

Unlike feudalism, technofeudalism is not about the ownership of farmland, but rather the virtual landscape comprising the sum total of all humans' attention spans. Instead of crops, a digital fief can be used to cultivate data and consumption.

Source: tatoeba (13523424)

Fief: m[asculine] A Fief. A (Knights) fee, a Mannor, or inheritance held by homage, and fealty; and given at the firſt, in truſt, and upon promiſe of aſſiſtance, or ſervice in the wars: […] Alſo, a Tenure, or Eſtate in fief, or in fee. This word was firſt heard of, after the conqueſt of Gallia by the Francs (or ancient French-men) when their Soveraign Princes, reſerving ſome land for their own Domains, diſtributed the reſt (by whole Countreys, or large territories) among their Captains, and principal followers, on condition, that they ſhould hold of them, and aid them in their wars […]

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