liege

1. 1.

   owing or owed feudal allegiance and service

   “one's liege lord”

   “a liege subject”

   Similarloyal

Other forms of liege

plural

lieges·

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 liege

What does liege mean?

liege means "a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liege?

liege has 1 syllable: liege. In IPA it is /ˈlidʒ/.

What is another word for liege?

Close synonyms include vassal, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory, liege lord. 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 liege a common word?

liege is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.