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LIEGEMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does liegeman mean?
• LIEGEMAN (noun)
The noun LIEGEMAN has 1 sense:
1. a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
Familiarity information: LIEGEMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
feudatory; liege; liege subject; liegeman; vassal
Hypernyms ("liegeman" is a kind of...):
follower (a person who accepts the leadership of another)
Context examples
Do so, Sir William, said the prince, and give him this purse of a hundred nobles as a sign of the respect which I bear for him; for, by St. George! he has served his master this day even as I would wish liegeman of mine to serve me.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I come, he shouted in a hoarse, thick voice, with a strong Breton accent, as squire and herald from my master, who is a very valiant pursuivant-of-arms, and a liegeman to the great and powerful monarch, Charles, king of the French.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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