Hypertext Webster Gateway: "feudalism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Feudalism \Feu"dal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. f['e]odalisme.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
feudalism
n : the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C;
vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in
war [syn: {feudal system}]
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