"feudal lord" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: feudal lords [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} feudal lord (plural feudal lords)
  1. A lord in a feudal system, one who bestows fiefs on vassals in exchange for homage, fealty, and obligations of personal services or rent. Synonyms: lord, liege lord, laird (english: chiefly Scottish contexts), seigneur (english: chiefly French contexts) Hyponyms: lord paramount, mesne lord, chief lord, castellan, chatelain, knight banneret Translations (lord in a feudal system): leenheer [masculine] (Dutch), lääninherra (Finnish), feodaaliherra (Finnish), suzerain [masculine] (French), lénsherra [masculine] (Icelandic), феуда́лец (feudálec) [masculine] (Macedonian), pan feudalny [masculine] (Polish), senhor feudal (Portuguese), ਸਾਮੰਤ (sāmant) [masculine] (Punjabi), феуда́лац [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), feudálac [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), derebeyi (Turkish)

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