Definitions for Liege

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Liege liege

Spelling: [leej, leezh]

IPA: /lidʒ, liʒ/

Liege is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Liege (eegil).

Definitions for Liege

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 Liege

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 Liege

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

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

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

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

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

From liege to Cologne the country exhibited one boundless harvest.

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

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

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

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