adj
Meaning 1
Of, or relating to feudalism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
feudal
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːdəl/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈfjuː.dɫ̩]
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Canada, General-American: /ˈfju.dəl/
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Canada, General-American: [ˈfju.ɾɫ̩]
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈfjʉːdəl/
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Australian, New-Zealand, informal: [ˈfjʉː.ɾɫ̩]
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homophone: futile (some US accents)
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rhymes with -uːdəl
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adjective
Meaning 2
of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: feudalistic
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Old French feodal, from Medieval Latin feodalis, from feodum, feudum, fevum (“fief, fee”), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, owndom, property, fee”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle”). By surface analysis, feud (“estate”) + -al. More at fee.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: إِقْطَاعِيّ (ʔiqṭāʕiyy) — of, or relating to feudalism
- Armenian: ֆեոդալական (feodalakan) — of, or relating to feudalism
- Armenian: ավատատիրական (avatatirakan) — of, or relating to feudalism
- Bulgarian: феодален (feodalen) — of, or relating to feudalism
- Chinese Mandarin: 封建的 — of, or relating to feudalism
- Czech: feudální — of, or relating to feudalism
- Danish: feudal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Danish: lens- — of, or relating to feudalism
- Esperanto: feŭda — of, or relating to feudalism
- Finnish: feodaalinen — of, or relating to feudalism
- Finnish: feodaali- — of, or relating to feudalism
- Finnish: läänitys- — of, or relating to feudalism
- French: féodal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Galician: feudal — of, or relating to feudalism
- German: feudal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Greek: φεουδαρχικός (feoudarchikós) — of, or relating to feudalism
- Indonesian: feodal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Kazakh: феодалдық (feodaldyq) — of, or relating to feudalism
- Macedonian: феуда́лен (feudálen) — of, or relating to feudalism
- Malay: feudal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Norwegian Bokmål: føydal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Norwegian Nynorsk: føydal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Polish: feudalny — of, or relating to feudalism
- Portuguese: feudal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Russian: феода́льный (feodálʹnyj) — of, or relating to feudalism
- Serbo-Croatian: фе̏уда̄лан — of, or relating to feudalism
- Serbo-Croatian: fȅudālan — of, or relating to feudalism
- Spanish: feudal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Swedish: feodal — of, or relating to feudalism
- Tagalog: malaalipin — of, or relating to feudalism
- Ukrainian: феодальний (feodalʹnyj) — of, or relating to feudalism
- Ukrainian: февдальний (fevdalʹnyj) — of, or relating to feudalism
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