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[syn: feudalism, feudal system]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Feudalism \Feu"dal*ism\ (f[=u]"dal*[i^]z'm), n. [Cf. F.
f['e]odalisme.]
The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates
in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render
military service to the king or feudal superior; feudal
principles and usages.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
feudalism
n 1: the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th
century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to
serve in war [syn: feudalism, feudal system]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "feudalism":
Nazism, absolutism, bond service, bondage, captivity, centralism,
collectivism, communism, constitutionalism, control, debt slavery,
democratism, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement,
disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, fascism,
federalism, feudality, governmentalism, helotism, helotry,
imperialism, indentureship, monarchism, national socialism,
neofascism, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, peonage,
pluralism, political principles, republicanism, restraint,
royalism, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery,
socialism, statism, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom,
tyranny, vassalage, villenage