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say it: FYOO-duh-liz-uhm
feudalism is a noun meaning "the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war". It is pronounced /ˈfjudəˌlɪzəm/ — FYOO-duh-liz-uhm. It carries one recorded sense.
the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for feudalism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.