Definitions for lieges

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lieges liege

Spelling: [leej, leezh]

IPA: /lidʒ, liʒ/

Lieges is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in lieges (eegils).

Definitions for lieges

noun

1. a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.
2. a feudal vassal or subject.
3. a city in E Belgium, on the Meuse River: one of the first cities attacked in World War I.
4. a province in E Belgium. 1521 sq. mi. (3940 sq. km). Capital: Liège.

adjective

1. owing primary allegiance and service to a feudal lord.
2. pertaining to the relation between a feudal vassal and lord.
3. loyal; faithful:

Origin of lieges

1250-1300; Middle English Old French li(e)ge ≪ Germanic *lēt- vassal + Latin -icus -ic; compare Medieval Latin lētī barbarians allowed to settle on Roman land (Germanic

Examples for lieges

The defenses of liege were hardly worth an enemy's gunfire before 1890.

From liege to Cologne the country exhibited one boundless harvest.

You will set out at once to follow me along the road to liege.

There has been no return of it but from the Minister of liege.

Doubtless reports had come to him of the situation at liege.

The situation of the city is not as imposing as that of liege.

This was luckily repeated to my son, who had him arrested at liege.

But the Germans had learned a severely taught lesson at liege.

Whether this included the reenforcement by the liege infantry is uncertain.

Possibly the Germans had begun to doubt how long liege could hold out.