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vassal 音標拼音: [v'æsəl] n. 諸侯,奴仆
a. 諸侯的,奴仆的 諸侯,奴僕諸侯的,奴僕的 vassal n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [ synonym: { vassal}, { liege}, { liegeman}, { liege subject}, { feudatory}] Vassal \ Vas" sal\, n. [ F., fr. LL. vassallus, vassus; of Celtic origin; cf. W. & Corn. gwas a youth, page, servant, Arm. gwaz a man, a male. Cf. { Valet}, { Varlet}, { Vavasor}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. ( Feud. Law) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. -- Burrill. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A subject; a dependent; a servant; a bondman; a slave. " The vassals of his anger." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { Rear vassal}, the vassal of a vassal; an arriere vassal. [ 1913 Webster]
Vassal \ Vas" sal\, a. Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. [ 1913 Webster] The sun and every vassal star. -- Keble. [ 1913 Webster]
Vassal \ Vas" sal\, v. t. To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave. [ Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster] 47 Moby Thesaurus words for " vassal": bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, captive, chattel, chattel slave, churl, client, concubine, creature, debt slave, dependent, feudal, feudatory, flunky, follower, galley slave, hanger- on, helot, homager, inferior, lackey, liege, liege man, liege subject, minion, myrmidon, odalisque, peon, retainer, serf, servant, servile, slave, stooge, subject, subordinate, subservient, theow, thrall, tributary, underling, understrapper, villein, yeoman
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