liegeman

Questions about liegeman

What does liegeman mean?

liegeman means "a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord".

How many syllables are in liegeman?

liegeman has 3 syllables and divides as lie-ge-man under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for liegeman?

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

liegeman 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.