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feudal lord

NOUN

lord

Synonyms

STRONG

aristocrat baron bishop captain commandant commander count dad don duke earl governor king leader liege magnate marquis monarch nobility noble nobleman overlord parliamentarian patrician peer potentate prince royalty ruler seigneur sovereign superior viscount

WEAK

man upstairs old man

Antonyms

STRONG

commoner follower inferior servant

Example Sentences

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As the etymologist Anatoly Liberman has pointed out, in its earliest forms, haga, hegg and hegge, the word meant “enclosure” or “yard,” especially the residence of a feudal lord.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Originally a retainer to a feudal lord, it’s said he joined a Yudano seminary to pray for his lord’s recovery from a deathly illness.

From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024

Fearing a repeat of the bloodshed in 1915, they were escorted out by French troops to settle in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, on land bought from an Ottoman feudal lord.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2023

The sword belonging to his slain master is in the wrongful possession of a feudal lord, and Akayo wants it back.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023

No authority was more weighty or more respected than that of this feudal lord of Gaul, Italy and Germany; none was more transient, because it was so purely personal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various