Look up: feudalism

1. feudalism
   [n] - the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C
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2. Feudalism
   social system operating in the Middle Ages, according to which land was granted to nobles in return for services
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3. feudalism
   The main form of social organization in medieval Europe; the term was first used in 1839. A system based primarily on land, feudalism involved a hierarchy of authority, rights, and power that...
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4. Feudalism
   Feu'dal·ism noun [ Confer French féodalisme .] The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
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5. feudalism
   feudal system noun the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war
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6. Feudalism
   • (n.) The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
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7. feudalism
   historiographic construct designating the social, economic, and political conditions in western Europe during the early Middle Ages, the long stretch ... [54 related articles]
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8. feudalism
   a political and economic system under which land was granted by a landowner to a person in exchange for military service or other duties
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9. feudalism
   feudalism (fyOO'dulizum) , form of political and social organization typical of Western Europe from the dissolution of Charlemagne's empire to the rise of the absolute monarchies. The term feudalism is derived from the Latin feodum, for “fief,” and ultimately from a Germanic word mea...
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10. Feudalism
    The relations and interdependence between lord and vassal, based on the fief, or ownership of land.
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11. feudalism
    The main form of social organization in medieval Europe; the term was first used in 1839. A system based primarily on land, feudalism involved a hierarchy of authority, rights, and power that extended from the monarchy downwards. At the head of the system the crown owned all the land. Beneath the...
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12. Feudalism
    pledges his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste, c.14th.c.(?) `Feudalism` was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for ordering society around relations...
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