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vassal
[ vas-uhl ]
noun
- (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.
- a person holding some similar relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, follower, or retainer.
- a servant or slave.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a vassal.
- having the status or position of a vassal.
vassal
/ ˈæə /
noun
- (in feudal society) a man who entered into a personal relationship with a lord to whom he paid homage and fealty in return for protection and often a fief. A great vassal was in vassalage to a king and a rear vassal to a great vassal
- a person, nation, etc, in a subordinate, suppliant, or dependent position relative to another
- ( as modifier )
vassal status
adjective
- of or relating to a vassal
vassal
- Under feudalism , a subordinate who placed himself in service to a lord in return for the lord's protection.
Derived Forms
- ˈ-, adjective
Other Word Forms
- s· adjective
- ԴDz·s noun
- ܲ·s noun
- ܲd·ȴ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of vassal1
Word History and Origins
Origin of vassal1
Example Sentences
"It's not in Europe's interest, and it's not in America's interest, for Europe to be a permanent security vassal of the United States," Vance said.
"His task is to seize all of Ukraine, change its legal status, and change the president and government. He wants to destroy our political system and to make Ukraine his vassal state."
According to the polling expert, Mr Lee, "a growing portion of the public now believes China wants to turn South Korea into some kind of vassal state".
But Liik, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the Russian leader, in seeking to make Ukraine a “vassal state,” could overreach.
He also characterized the antebellum North as “the mere cringing vassal of the South” and a section of the country that contained “lords” and “nobles” of its own that comprised an “aristocracy of the skin.”
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