fiefdom – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
fiefdom
n.
estate of a feudal lord, plantation worked by serfs serve the owner of the estate; any property or organization controlled by a dominant person or group
Fief
A
fief was the central element of
feudalism and consisted of
heritable property or rights granted by an
overlord to a
vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of
homage and
fealty. The fees were often lands or revenue-producing real property held in feudal
land tenure: these are typically known as
fiefs or
fiefdoms. However, not only land but anything of value could be held in fee, including governmental office, rights of exploitation such as hunting or fishing, monopolies in trade, and
tax farms.
fiefdom
Noun
1. the domain controlled by a feudal lord
(hypernym) domain, demesne, land
2. an organization that is controlled by a dominat person or group
(hypernym) organization, organisation
fiefdom
Synonyms and related words:
adverse possession, alodium, burgage, claim, colony, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, having title to, hold, holding, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, mandate, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, seisin, socage, squatting, sublease, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, title, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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