Definitions for fiefs

fiefs fief

Spelling: [feef]
IPA: /fif/

Fiefs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in fiefs (effis).

Definitions for fiefs

noun

  1. a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations.
  2. a territory held in fee.
  3. fiefdom.

Origin of fiefs

1605-15; French, variant of Old French fieu, fie, cognate with Anglo-French fe fee Germanic; compare Old High German fihu, Old English feoh cattle, property; akin to L

Examples for fiefs

Coming to Lake Debo, a fief of the Niger, we enter a sea of grass.

Half of Spain shall be his fief; the other half is for Count Roland.

The rate of the rachat has been decided to be equal to the income of the fief for a year.

Frederick Barbarossa erected their fief into a county in 1160.

What most irritated him was the close proximity of Norby's fief to Sweden.

Adjebeg received in fief the valley which still bears his name.

During the middle ages it was for a time a fief of the Villehardouins.

It was there that Claude's parents resided, in the midst of their fief.

The wardship of this fief and manor, during the minority of the seigneur, was in the Crown.

These estates were held as a fief, subject to tribute and military service.

Word Value for fiefs
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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