Definition of fief in English:

fief

noun fiːffif

1Law
historical An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service; a fee.
Example sentencesExamples
- Throughout 1171, Strongbow sent emissaries to Henry, and eventually went to Henry in person, offering to surrender his lands in return for their fief as a vassal of the king.
- The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord.
- King John made up by surrendering his kingdom as a feudal fief to the pope.
- But in 1086 William forced all his vassals to swear service directly to him for their fiefs.
- In 1525 Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Grand Master of the Order, accepted Lutheranism, secularized the state, and created a duchy as a fief of Poland.
- In retaliation, Teresa tried to lay claim to the Barberini fiefs in the Kingdom of Naples, but she did not pursue this very far.
- He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong.
- After complicated manoeuvring on both sides, in 1202 King Philip announced that John had forfeited the Plantagenet fiefs in France.
- The chartered companies originated in the feudal practice of sovereigns granting fiefs to vassals in exchange for acceptance of obligations to the suzerain.
- Otherwise Leinster and Meath became fiefs, held of the English crown by precisely defined knight service by Strongbow and Hugh de Lacy respectively.
- I have never been to the northern fiefs, and those lands will be mine before Neleva.
- Their heirs would become emperors; John's own heirs would be given various imperial fiefs.
- Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs.
- Large incomes were required before titles were awarded, but fiefs and landgrants were carved out of conquered territories in order to endow the new titles.
- Those who fought with him at Hastings did very well, receiving lands all over England as fiefs.
- Some Crusaders stayed on, to be granted various fiefs.
- Scots nobles lost their English fiefs; after 1380 the Scots pound floated free of the English pound.
- By 1086, 80% of the fiefs were in Norman hands (some held by Flemings and Bretons).
- John became Lord of Ireland in 1177, but he did not receive any actual fiefs, so he got nicknamed John Lackland.
- During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs, some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms.
Synonyms
dependency, colony, protectorate, territory, province, outpost, satellite, satellite state
2A person's sphere of operation or control.
（人的）活动（或控制）范围；领域
Example sentencesExamples
- I am the custodian of the faith and savings of 30,000 members and I can't turn it into a fief.
- So at the instruction of Mandela and his charitable fiefs, MacRobert is going after ersatz Mandelas with a vengeance.
- I love my people, the people of my fief, the fief that has been mine since the death of my mother.
- Brokaw and Jennings want to preserve their fiefs for just a little while longer (Brokaw retires on December 1).
- Governors in Russia wield a huge influence on votes in their fiefs, but Titov has difficulty coming second even in his home region, with a rating of 17%.
- Regardless of their personal profile, all ministerial officials behaved in much the same way in relation to their own fiefs.
- It is not, one presumes, the view of the French generals who currently treat the people and nation of Cote d' Ivoire as their fief.
- Prancor, too, was in the Wraston Basin, but it wasn't so much a mining fief as it was a lumber-oriented fief.
- We need them now and, from the reports of drought in the western fiefs, we shall need them for some time to come.
- That way, I would retain control of my own fief, and still have the man I loved.
- The oil and mineral companies bought their fiefs.
- It doesn't take a genius to understand why Bremmer and his boss are so reluctant to employ the universal concept of democracy in their occupied fief.
- The push for freedom that began in Iraq is steadily wresting Lebanon away from its status as a fief of Damascus.
- Wearing their organizational hat, they - Gary Latham more vigorously and successfully than most - have moved toward closer cooperation among the manifold fiefs of psychology, and their various barons.
- Before the Nehru family made Amethi their fief, there were no roads, power, schools and industries there.
- In other words, says Horowitz, ‘a private fief for the radical left.’
- What followed upon the loss of Communist Party and planned economy centralism was not so much ‘decentralization’, as many commentators suggested, as the formation of eighty-nine largely disconnected fiefs.
- Almost 200 years ago, one of the many rebellions in central China was the product of unmarried men who formed into a 100,000-strong gang that established a fief which lasted for 17 years before it was quashed by the imperial army.
- It appears unlikely that Tung will soon name a successor since Yeoh has until October before abandoning his fief for exile.
- The vote on Sunday was the final stage in a peace plan to end 13 years of civil war and restore a government to Somalia, which has been divided into fiefs ruled by rival warlords since 1991 when dictator Siad Barre was ousted.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French (see fee).

fee from Middle English:
A word bound up with the medieval feudal system, in which the nobles held Crown land in exchange for military service while the peasants were obliged to work their lord's land and give him a share of the produce. A fee was originally a fief (early 17th century) or feudal estate, from which it developed through the meanings ‘the right to an office or pension’, ‘a tribute to a superior’, and ‘a benefit or reward’ to the modern sense. The word comes from Old French feu or fief, and is related to feudal (early 17th century).

Rhymes

aperitif, beef, belief, brief, chief, enfeoff, grief, interleaf, leaf, Leif, lief, Mazar-e-Sharif, misbelief, motif, naif, O'Keeffe, reef, seif, Sharif, sheaf, shereef, sportif, Tenerife, thief

Definition of fief in US English:

fief

nounfēffif

1Law
historical An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.
Example sentencesExamples
- Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs.
- Throughout 1171, Strongbow sent emissaries to Henry, and eventually went to Henry in person, offering to surrender his lands in return for their fief as a vassal of the king.
- Otherwise Leinster and Meath became fiefs, held of the English crown by precisely defined knight service by Strongbow and Hugh de Lacy respectively.
- The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord.
- I have never been to the northern fiefs, and those lands will be mine before Neleva.
- By 1086, 80% of the fiefs were in Norman hands (some held by Flemings and Bretons).
- But in 1086 William forced all his vassals to swear service directly to him for their fiefs.
- During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs, some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms.
- Some Crusaders stayed on, to be granted various fiefs.
- Those who fought with him at Hastings did very well, receiving lands all over England as fiefs.
- The chartered companies originated in the feudal practice of sovereigns granting fiefs to vassals in exchange for acceptance of obligations to the suzerain.
- Large incomes were required before titles were awarded, but fiefs and landgrants were carved out of conquered territories in order to endow the new titles.
- Scots nobles lost their English fiefs; after 1380 the Scots pound floated free of the English pound.
- In 1525 Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Grand Master of the Order, accepted Lutheranism, secularized the state, and created a duchy as a fief of Poland.
- King John made up by surrendering his kingdom as a feudal fief to the pope.
- Their heirs would become emperors; John's own heirs would be given various imperial fiefs.
- In retaliation, Teresa tried to lay claim to the Barberini fiefs in the Kingdom of Naples, but she did not pursue this very far.
- He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong.
- After complicated manoeuvring on both sides, in 1202 King Philip announced that John had forfeited the Plantagenet fiefs in France.
- John became Lord of Ireland in 1177, but he did not receive any actual fiefs, so he got nicknamed John Lackland.
Synonyms
dependency, colony, protectorate, territory, province, outpost, satellite, satellite state
2A person's sphere of operation or control.
（人的）活动（或控制）范围；领域
Example sentencesExamples
- It is not, one presumes, the view of the French generals who currently treat the people and nation of Cote d' Ivoire as their fief.
- That way, I would retain control of my own fief, and still have the man I loved.
- The push for freedom that began in Iraq is steadily wresting Lebanon away from its status as a fief of Damascus.
- The oil and mineral companies bought their fiefs.
- It appears unlikely that Tung will soon name a successor since Yeoh has until October before abandoning his fief for exile.
- What followed upon the loss of Communist Party and planned economy centralism was not so much ‘decentralization’, as many commentators suggested, as the formation of eighty-nine largely disconnected fiefs.
- So at the instruction of Mandela and his charitable fiefs, MacRobert is going after ersatz Mandelas with a vengeance.
- We need them now and, from the reports of drought in the western fiefs, we shall need them for some time to come.
- Almost 200 years ago, one of the many rebellions in central China was the product of unmarried men who formed into a 100,000-strong gang that established a fief which lasted for 17 years before it was quashed by the imperial army.
- Prancor, too, was in the Wraston Basin, but it wasn't so much a mining fief as it was a lumber-oriented fief.
- The vote on Sunday was the final stage in a peace plan to end 13 years of civil war and restore a government to Somalia, which has been divided into fiefs ruled by rival warlords since 1991 when dictator Siad Barre was ousted.
- I am the custodian of the faith and savings of 30,000 members and I can't turn it into a fief.
- Before the Nehru family made Amethi their fief, there were no roads, power, schools and industries there.
- Brokaw and Jennings want to preserve their fiefs for just a little while longer (Brokaw retires on December 1).
- In other words, says Horowitz, ‘a private fief for the radical left.’
- Wearing their organizational hat, they - Gary Latham more vigorously and successfully than most - have moved toward closer cooperation among the manifold fiefs of psychology, and their various barons.
- It doesn't take a genius to understand why Bremmer and his boss are so reluctant to employ the universal concept of democracy in their occupied fief.
- Regardless of their personal profile, all ministerial officials behaved in much the same way in relation to their own fiefs.
- Governors in Russia wield a huge influence on votes in their fiefs, but Titov has difficulty coming second even in his home region, with a rating of 17%.
- I love my people, the people of my fief, the fief that has been mine since the death of my mother.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French (see fee).

词汇	fief
释义	Definition of fief in English: fief noun fiːffif 1Law historical An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service; a fee. Example sentencesExamples Throughout 1171, Strongbow sent emissaries to Henry, and eventually went to Henry in person, offering to surrender his lands in return for their fief as a vassal of the king. The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord. King John made up by surrendering his kingdom as a feudal fief to the pope. But in 1086 William forced all his vassals to swear service directly to him for their fiefs. In 1525 Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Grand Master of the Order, accepted Lutheranism, secularized the state, and created a duchy as a fief of Poland. In retaliation, Teresa tried to lay claim to the Barberini fiefs in the Kingdom of Naples, but she did not pursue this very far. He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong. After complicated manoeuvring on both sides, in 1202 King Philip announced that John had forfeited the Plantagenet fiefs in France. The chartered companies originated in the feudal practice of sovereigns granting fiefs to vassals in exchange for acceptance of obligations to the suzerain. Otherwise Leinster and Meath became fiefs, held of the English crown by precisely defined knight service by Strongbow and Hugh de Lacy respectively. I have never been to the northern fiefs, and those lands will be mine before Neleva. Their heirs would become emperors; John's own heirs would be given various imperial fiefs. Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs. Large incomes were required before titles were awarded, but fiefs and landgrants were carved out of conquered territories in order to endow the new titles. Those who fought with him at Hastings did very well, receiving lands all over England as fiefs. Some Crusaders stayed on, to be granted various fiefs. Scots nobles lost their English fiefs; after 1380 the Scots pound floated free of the English pound. By 1086, 80% of the fiefs were in Norman hands (some held by Flemings and Bretons). John became Lord of Ireland in 1177, but he did not receive any actual fiefs, so he got nicknamed John Lackland. During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs, some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms. Synonyms dependency, colony, protectorate, territory, province, outpost, satellite, satellite state 2A person's sphere of operation or control. （人的）活动（或控制）范围；领域 Example sentencesExamples I am the custodian of the faith and savings of 30,000 members and I can't turn it into a fief. So at the instruction of Mandela and his charitable fiefs, MacRobert is going after ersatz Mandelas with a vengeance. I love my people, the people of my fief, the fief that has been mine since the death of my mother. Brokaw and Jennings want to preserve their fiefs for just a little while longer (Brokaw retires on December 1). Governors in Russia wield a huge influence on votes in their fiefs, but Titov has difficulty coming second even in his home region, with a rating of 17%. Regardless of their personal profile, all ministerial officials behaved in much the same way in relation to their own fiefs. It is not, one presumes, the view of the French generals who currently treat the people and nation of Cote d' Ivoire as their fief. Prancor, too, was in the Wraston Basin, but it wasn't so much a mining fief as it was a lumber-oriented fief. We need them now and, from the reports of drought in the western fiefs, we shall need them for some time to come. That way, I would retain control of my own fief, and still have the man I loved. The oil and mineral companies bought their fiefs. It doesn't take a genius to understand why Bremmer and his boss are so reluctant to employ the universal concept of democracy in their occupied fief. The push for freedom that began in Iraq is steadily wresting Lebanon away from its status as a fief of Damascus. Wearing their organizational hat, they - Gary Latham more vigorously and successfully than most - have moved toward closer cooperation among the manifold fiefs of psychology, and their various barons. Before the Nehru family made Amethi their fief, there were no roads, power, schools and industries there. In other words, says Horowitz, ‘a private fief for the radical left.’ What followed upon the loss of Communist Party and planned economy centralism was not so much ‘decentralization’, as many commentators suggested, as the formation of eighty-nine largely disconnected fiefs. Almost 200 years ago, one of the many rebellions in central China was the product of unmarried men who formed into a 100,000-strong gang that established a fief which lasted for 17 years before it was quashed by the imperial army. It appears unlikely that Tung will soon name a successor since Yeoh has until October before abandoning his fief for exile. The vote on Sunday was the final stage in a peace plan to end 13 years of civil war and restore a government to Somalia, which has been divided into fiefs ruled by rival warlords since 1991 when dictator Siad Barre was ousted. Origin Early 17th century: from French (see fee). fee from Middle English: A word bound up with the medieval feudal system, in which the nobles held Crown land in exchange for military service while the peasants were obliged to work their lord's land and give him a share of the produce. A fee was originally a fief (early 17th century) or feudal estate, from which it developed through the meanings ‘the right to an office or pension’, ‘a tribute to a superior’, and ‘a benefit or reward’ to the modern sense. The word comes from Old French feu or fief, and is related to feudal (early 17th century). Rhymes aperitif, beef, belief, brief, chief, enfeoff, grief, interleaf, leaf, Leif, lief, Mazar-e-Sharif, misbelief, motif, naif, O'Keeffe, reef, seif, Sharif, sheaf, shereef, sportif, Tenerife, thief Definition of fief in US English: fief nounfēffif 1Law historical An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service. Example sentencesExamples Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs. Throughout 1171, Strongbow sent emissaries to Henry, and eventually went to Henry in person, offering to surrender his lands in return for their fief as a vassal of the king. Otherwise Leinster and Meath became fiefs, held of the English crown by precisely defined knight service by Strongbow and Hugh de Lacy respectively. The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord. I have never been to the northern fiefs, and those lands will be mine before Neleva. By 1086, 80% of the fiefs were in Norman hands (some held by Flemings and Bretons). But in 1086 William forced all his vassals to swear service directly to him for their fiefs. During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs, some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms. Some Crusaders stayed on, to be granted various fiefs. Those who fought with him at Hastings did very well, receiving lands all over England as fiefs. The chartered companies originated in the feudal practice of sovereigns granting fiefs to vassals in exchange for acceptance of obligations to the suzerain. Large incomes were required before titles were awarded, but fiefs and landgrants were carved out of conquered territories in order to endow the new titles. Scots nobles lost their English fiefs; after 1380 the Scots pound floated free of the English pound. In 1525 Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Grand Master of the Order, accepted Lutheranism, secularized the state, and created a duchy as a fief of Poland. King John made up by surrendering his kingdom as a feudal fief to the pope. Their heirs would become emperors; John's own heirs would be given various imperial fiefs. In retaliation, Teresa tried to lay claim to the Barberini fiefs in the Kingdom of Naples, but she did not pursue this very far. He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong. After complicated manoeuvring on both sides, in 1202 King Philip announced that John had forfeited the Plantagenet fiefs in France. John became Lord of Ireland in 1177, but he did not receive any actual fiefs, so he got nicknamed John Lackland. Synonyms dependency, colony, protectorate, territory, province, outpost, satellite, satellite state 2A person's sphere of operation or control. （人的）活动（或控制）范围；领域 Example sentencesExamples It is not, one presumes, the view of the French generals who currently treat the people and nation of Cote d' Ivoire as their fief. That way, I would retain control of my own fief, and still have the man I loved. The push for freedom that began in Iraq is steadily wresting Lebanon away from its status as a fief of Damascus. The oil and mineral companies bought their fiefs. It appears unlikely that Tung will soon name a successor since Yeoh has until October before abandoning his fief for exile. What followed upon the loss of Communist Party and planned economy centralism was not so much ‘decentralization’, as many commentators suggested, as the formation of eighty-nine largely disconnected fiefs. So at the instruction of Mandela and his charitable fiefs, MacRobert is going after ersatz Mandelas with a vengeance. We need them now and, from the reports of drought in the western fiefs, we shall need them for some time to come. Almost 200 years ago, one of the many rebellions in central China was the product of unmarried men who formed into a 100,000-strong gang that established a fief which lasted for 17 years before it was quashed by the imperial army. Prancor, too, was in the Wraston Basin, but it wasn't so much a mining fief as it was a lumber-oriented fief. The vote on Sunday was the final stage in a peace plan to end 13 years of civil war and restore a government to Somalia, which has been divided into fiefs ruled by rival warlords since 1991 when dictator Siad Barre was ousted. I am the custodian of the faith and savings of 30,000 members and I can't turn it into a fief. Before the Nehru family made Amethi their fief, there were no roads, power, schools and industries there. Brokaw and Jennings want to preserve their fiefs for just a little while longer (Brokaw retires on December 1). In other words, says Horowitz, ‘a private fief for the radical left.’ Wearing their organizational hat, they - Gary Latham more vigorously and successfully than most - have moved toward closer cooperation among the manifold fiefs of psychology, and their various barons. It doesn't take a genius to understand why Bremmer and his boss are so reluctant to employ the universal concept of democracy in their occupied fief. Regardless of their personal profile, all ministerial officials behaved in much the same way in relation to their own fiefs. Governors in Russia wield a huge influence on votes in their fiefs, but Titov has difficulty coming second even in his home region, with a rating of 17%. I love my people, the people of my fief, the fief that has been mine since the death of my mother. Origin Early 17th century: from French (see fee).
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