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Definitions for Vassal

[1] (in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
[2] a person holding some similar relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, follower, or retainer.
[3] a servant or slave.
[4] of, relating to, or characteristic of a vassal.
[5] having the status or position of a vassal.
[6] (in feudal society) a man who entered into a personal relationship with a lord to whom he paid homage and fealty in return for protection and often a fief. A great vassal was in vassalage to a king and a rear vassal to a great vassal
[7] a person, nation, etc, in a subordinate, suppliant, or dependent position relative to another (as modifier ) vassal status
[8] of or relating to a vassal

Words related to Vassal

serf, liege, slave, dependent, thrall, beneficiary, peasant, subordinate, varlet, tenant, subject, helot, liegeman, bondman, esne

Words nearby Vassal

vasovagal attack, vasovagal syncope, vasovasostomy, vasovesiculectomy, vassa, vassal, vassalage, vassalic, vassalize, vassar, vast

Origin of Vassal

1300–50; Middle English < Middle French < Medieval Latin vassallus, equivalent to vass(us ) servant (< Celtic; compare Welsh gwas young man, Irish foss servant) + -allus noun suffix

Words that may be confused with Vassal

vassal, vessel

Other words from Vassal

vas·sal·less , adjective
non·vas·sal , noun
sub·vas·sal , noun
un·der·vas·sal , noun

Word origin for Vassal

C14: via Old French from Medieval Latin vassallus, from vassus servant, of Celtic origin; compare Welsh gwas boy, Old Irish foss servant

Synonyms for Vassal

beneficiary, bondman, dependent, helot, liege, liegeman, peasant, serf, slave, subject, subordinate, tenant, thrall, varlet, esne