Fief Definition

fēf
fiefs
noun
fiefs
Under feudalism, heritable land held from a lord in return for service.
Webster's New World
Something over which one has rights or exercises control.
Wiktionary

(metaph) An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.

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Noun

Singular:
fief
Plural:
fiefs

Origin of Fief

  • From Old French fief (whence also fee), from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum, from Old Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep”), from Proto-Indo-European *peku-, *peḱu- (“sheep”). See fee for cognates.

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Old French feu, fief fee

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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