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Word entry · 5 letters

liege

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"Feudal lord"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /liːd͡ʒ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted eegilStarts with LEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. owing or owed feudal allegiance and service

Word origin

From Middle English liege, lege, lige, from Anglo-Norman lige, from Old French liege (“liege, free”), from Middle High German ledic, ledec (“free, empty, vacant”) (Modern German ledig (“unmarried”)) from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz (“flexible, free, unoccupied”).

Used in a sentence

  • More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!
  • Kings, my liege, may take a lesson from him
  • a liege lord

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