"feud" Definition

Definitions for the word "feud" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Prolonged hostility, esp. Between families, tribes, etc. v. Conduct a feud. [germanic: related to *foe]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
5. n.
= *fief. [medieval latin feudum *fee]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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