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vassal

[ vas-uhl ]

noun

  1. (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.
  2. a person holding some similar relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, follower, or retainer.
  3. a servant or slave.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a vassal.
  2. having the status or position of a vassal.

vassal

/ 藞惫忙蝉蓹濒 /

noun

  1. (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
    1. a person, nation, etc, in a subordinate, suppliant, or dependent position relative to another
    2. ( as modifier )

      vassal status

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or relating to a vassal
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

vassal

  1. Under feudalism , a subordinate who placed himself in service to a lord in return for the lord's protection.
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Derived Forms

  • 藞惫补蝉蝉补濒-濒别蝉蝉, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 惫补蝉顎僺补濒路濒别蝉蝉 adjective
  • 苍辞苍路惫补蝉顎僺补濒 noun
  • 蝉耻产路惫补蝉顎僺补濒 noun
  • 耻苍顎僤别谤路惫补蝉顎却补濒 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of vassal1

1300鈥50; Middle English < Middle French < Medieval Latin vassallus, equivalent to vass ( us ) servant (< Celtic; compare Welsh gwas young man, Irish foss servant) + -allus noun suffix
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of vassal1

C14: via Old French from Medieval Latin vassallus, from vassus servant, of Celtic origin; compare Welsh gwas boy, Old Irish foss servant
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"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.

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"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."

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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".

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But Liik, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the Russian leader, in seeking to make Ukraine a 鈥渧assal state,鈥 could overreach.

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He also characterized the antebellum North as 鈥渢he mere cringing vassal of the South鈥 and a section of the country that contained 鈥渓ords鈥 and 鈥渘obles鈥 of its own that comprised an 鈥渁ristocracy of the skin.鈥

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