Thesaurus: liege

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1. a. Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
2. a. Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
3. a. Full; perfect; complete; pure.
4. n. A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.
5. n. The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
6. adj. owing or owed feudal allegiance and service
7. n. a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
8. n. a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service
9. n:100 n. a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service n. city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium s. owing or owed feudal allegiance and service