feud
/fjuːd/
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British/fjʉwd/
feud noun: a state of long-standing mutual hostility.
Noun (1)
feud (plural feuds)
- A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
- You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
- Wherein my sword had not impressure made / Of our ranke feud: but the iust gods gainsay,c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
- A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Verb
feud (third-person singular simple present feuds, present participle feuding, simple past and past participle feuded)
- To carry on a feud.
- The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.
- As a result of the heel turn, [Riki] Choshu was instantly elevated as a headliner and feuded with [Tatsumi] Fujinami in main events for two years over the WWF [World Wrestling Federation] International Heavyweight strap.2002, John F. Molinaro, edited by Jeff Marek and Dave Meltzer, Top 100 Pro Wrestlers of All Time, Toronto, Ont.: Winding Stair Press, →ISBN, page 78, column 1
Noun (2)
feud (plural feuds)
feud meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
feud in Tamil
- குடிமரபுப் பகை, வழி வழிப் பகை, வழிவழிப்பகை, பங்காளிச்சண்டை
feud in Urdu
- جھگڑا, خاندانی جھگڑا, خون خرابا
feud in Malayalam
- കുടിപ്പക, വിദ്വേഷം, തീരാപ്പക, നിരന്തരകലഹാവസ്ഥ
feud in Kannada
- ವ್ಯಾಜ್ಯ, ದ್ವೇಷ, ಹಳೆಯ ಹಗೆತನ, ದಾಯಾದಿ ಕಲಹ, ವೈರ, ಹಳೇ ಹಗೆತನ
More languagesFewer languages
- feud in Pashto
- بدي bə́di
- feud in Tagalog
- rido, ubusan ng lahi
- feud in Arabic
- إِقْطَاعَة ʔiqṭāʕa
- feud in Malay
- persengketaan, permusuhan, perseteruan
- feud in Persian
- تیول teyul
Examples of feud in a sentence
- Wondering why they are feuding can be an occasional Roman Empire for me.
- The blood feud was old and a mormal between our Families.
- A feud ignited, resulting in the Battle of Skunktown.”
Synonyms of feud
Forms of feud
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | feuds |
| alternative form | fead |
| alternative form | feaud |
| alternative form | fede |
| alternative form | feood |
| alternative form | fewd |
| alternative form | fewde |
| alternative form | fuide |
| alternative form | fude |
| alternative form | feod |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | feuds |
| present participle | feuding |
| past participle | feuded |
| past | feuded |
Origin of feud
Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”). Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German).
From Medieval Latin feudum. Doublet of fee, fief, and feoff.
Words formed from feud
Words that rhyme with feud
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- frood
- glued
Questions about feud
- What does feud mean?
- Feud means a state of long-standing mutual hostility.
- What is feud in Tamil?
- Feud in Tamil is குடிமரபுப் பகை, வழி வழிப் பகை, வழிவழிப்பகை. See Feud meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is feud?
- Feud can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce feud?
- Feud is pronounced /fjuːd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of feud?
- The plural of feud is feuds.
Words near feud in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: feud (page history and authors); feud (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feud (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feud (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); feud (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بدي (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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