feud - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'feud' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Feud

[ 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.
- A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
- 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.

Meaning of 'feud' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . feud

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- carry out a feud

Example in sentence:

The two professors have been feuding for years

Nearby Words:

feu feu de joie feuar feudal feudalism feudalist feudality feudalize feudalized feudalizing

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Feudalism
Feudalism is a type of social, economic, political and legal system that is primarily based on agricultural production but is productive enough to support a class of artisans and merchants.

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