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vassalage

/ˈvæsəlɪd͡ʒ/

vassalage noun: the state of being a vassal; fealty.

Noun

vassalage (countable and uncountable, plural vassalages)

  1. The state of being a vassal; fealty.
    • Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
      Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 26”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
    • For all England was his fief, held in vassalage to God and to no man alive, his heart now sang; allwhither his empire spread, opulent in grain and metal and every revenue of the earth, and in stalwart men (his chattels), and in strong orderly cities, where the windows would be adorned with scarlet...2012, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry, page 138

vassalage meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Sanskrit and Malay

vassalage in Tamil

குடியாள் நிலை, குடியாண்மைக் கடமை, குடியாண்மை ஊழியம், அடிமை ஊழியம், சார்பூழியம், மானிய உடைமை

vassalage in Urdu

غلامی, جاگیر

vassalage in Sanskrit

vassalage, dependence
वैश्य váiśya

vassalage in Malay

state
jajahan takluk
More languagesFewer languages
vassalage in Indonesian
jajahan takluk

Forms of vassalage

pluralvassalages

Origin of vassalage

From Old French vassalage (French vasselage), from vassal.

Questions about vassalage

What does vassalage mean?
Vassalage means the state of being a vassal; fealty.
What is vassalage in Tamil?
Vassalage in Tamil is குடியாள் நிலை, குடியாண்மைக் கடமை, குடியாண்மை ஊழியம். See Vassalage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vassalage?
Vassalage is a noun.
How do you pronounce vassalage?
Vassalage is pronounced /ˈvæsəlɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of vassalage?
The plural of vassalage is vassalages.

Words near vassalage in the dictionary

  1. Vass
  2. vassal
  3. vassal state
  4. vassal states
  5. vassal-in-chief
  6. vassalage
  7. vassalages
  8. Vassalboro
  9. vassaldom
  10. vassaldoms
  11. vassaled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vassalage (page history and authors); vassalage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vassalage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वैश्य (Sanskrit) (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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