FEUDAL SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feudal system mean? 

• FEUDAL SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun FEUDAL SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war

  Familiarity information: FEUDAL SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEUDAL SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

feudal system; feudalism

Hypernyms ("feudal system" is a kind of...):

social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)

 Context examples 

The protector had become the protected, and the whole fabric of the feudal system was tottering to a fall.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)