feudal lord

English

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 (chiefly Scottish contexts); seigneur (chiefly French contexts)

Hyponyms

• lord paramount, mesne lord, chief lord, castellan, chatelain, knight banneret

Translations

lord in a feudal system

• Dutch: leenheer (nl) m
• Finnish: lääninherra, feodaaliherra
• Icelandic: lénsherra (is) m
• Macedonian: феуда́лец m (feudálec)
• Portuguese: senhor feudal (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: феуда́лац m

  Roman: feudálac (sh) m

• Turkish: derebeyi (tr)