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noun
- 1. a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance. historical
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1. : a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant. 2. : one in a subservient or subordinate position. vassaladjective. Examples of vassal in a Sentence.
VASSAL definition: 1. in medieval Europe, a man who agreed to fight for a king or lord (= rich and powerful land…. Learn more.
Vassals were people who worked the vast plots of land that were held by lords, who though much fewer in number, held all the wealth and power. In days of yore, vassals pledged devotion to feudal lords, who were the landowners, in exchange for protection and use of the land—-called a fief.
Vassal definition: (in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.. See examples of VASSAL used in a sentence.
1. countable noun. In feudal society, a vassal was a man who gave military service to a lord, in return for which he was protected by the lord and received land to live on. 2. countable noun [usually singular] If you say that one country is a vassal of another, you mean that it is controlled by it.
VASSAL meaning: 1. in medieval Europe, a man who agreed to fight for a king or lord (= rich and powerful land…. Learn more.
vassal, in feudal society, one invested with a fief in return for services to an overlord. Some vassals did not have fiefs and lived at their lord’s court as his household knights. Certain vassals who held their fiefs directly from the crown were tenants in chief and formed the most important feudal group, the barons.
:a person in the past who received protection and land from a lord in return for loyalty and service — often used figuratively to describe a person, country, etc., that is controlled by someone or something more powerful. The states became vassals of the empire.
vassal. noun. /ˈvæsl/ a man in the Middle Ages who promised to fight for and show support for a king or other powerful owner of land, in return for being given land to live on. Want to learn more?
A vassal [1] or liege subject [2] is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe. While the subordinate party is called a vassal, the dominant party is called a suzerain.
