Feud

[fjuːd] or [fjʊd]

解释:

(noun.) a bitter quarrel between two parties.

(verb.) carry out a feud; 'The two professors have been feuding for years'.

沙琳编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

(n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.

(n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

校对:赛克

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Quarrel (especially between families or clans), broil, contention, clashing, dissension, jarring, rupture, bickering, falling out.[2]. Fee, fief.

校对:利昂

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Fray, affray, broil, contention, enmity, antipathy, animosity, quarrel, strife,bitterness, dissension, hostility

ANT:Friendliness, sympathy, congeniality, clanship, pacification, reconciliation,sociality, neighborliness

整理:罗德尼

解释:

n. a fief or land held on condition of service.—adj. Feud′al pertaining to feuds or fiefs: belonging to feudalism.—n. Feudalisā′tion.—v.t. Feud′alise.—ns. Feud′alism the system during the Middle Ages by which vassals held lands from lords-superior on condition of military service; Feud′alist; Feudal′ity the state of being feudal: the feudal system.—adv. Feud′ally.—adjs. Feud′ary Feud′atory holding lands or power by a feudal tenure—also ns.—ns. Feud′ist a writer on feuds: one versed in the laws of feudal tenure.

n. a war waged by private individuals families or clans against one another on their own account: a bloody strife.—Right of feud the right to protect one's self and one's kinsmen and punish injuries.

手打:路德维格