Feudalism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feudalism \Feu"dal*ism\ (f[=u]"dal*[i^]z'm), 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 king or feudal superior; feudal
     principles and usages.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "feudalism":
     Nazism, absolutism, bond service, bondage, captivity, centralism,
     collectivism, communism, constitutionalism, control, debt slavery,
     democratism, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement,
     disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, fascism,
     federalism, feudality, governmentalism, helotism, helotry,
     imperialism, indentureship, monarchism, national socialism,
     neofascism, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, peonage,
     pluralism, political principles, republicanism, restraint,
     royalism, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery,
     socialism, statism, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom,
     tyranny, vassalage, villenage