Liege

[liːdʒ] or [lidʒ]

Definition

(noun.) city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium.

(noun.) a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.

(adj.) owing or owed feudal allegiance and service; 'one's liege lord'; 'a liege subject' .

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Definition

(a.) Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.

(a.) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.

(a.) Full; perfect; complete; pure.

(n.) A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.

(n.) The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Bound by feudal tenure (to service, as a vassal or to protection, as a lord).

n. Superior, sovereign, liege lord.

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Definition

adj. free except as within the relations of vassal and feudal lord: under a feudal tenure.—n. one under a feudal tenure: a vassal: a lord or superior or one who has lieges.—n. Liege′dom allegiance.—adj. Liege′less not subject to a superior.—n. Liege′man a vassal: a subject.

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