feudatory

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord

   “a feudatory relationship”
2. 2.

   owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign

   “it remained feudatory to India until 1365”

   Similarsubordinate

1. 1.

   a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord

   Synonymsvassalliegeliegemanliege subject

   Broaderfollower

Other forms of feudatory

plural

feudatories·

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.

Questions about feudatory

What does feudatory mean?

feudatory means "of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in feudatory?

feudatory has 5 syllables: fe-u-da-to-ry. The stress falls on "da".

What is another word for feudatory?

Close synonyms include vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is feudatory a common word?

feudatory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.