Definitions for fief

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Spelling: [feef]
IPA: /fif/

Fief is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in fief (effi).

Definitions for fief

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 fief

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 fief

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Frederick Barbarossa erected their fief into a county in 1160.

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

Word Value for fief
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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