Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lord or sovereign to whom allegiance and service are due according to feudal law.
- n. A vassal or subject owing allegiance and services to a lord or sovereign under feudal law.
- n. A loyal subject to a monarch.
- adj. Entitled to the loyalty and services of vassals or subjects: a liege lord.
- adj. Bound to give such allegiance and services to a lord or monarch.
- adj. Loyal; faithful.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Free; specifically, free from obligation to service except as within the relations of lord and vassal: as, a liege lord, a liege man (correlative terms implying protection on the one side and service on the other, as against all other claims).
- Of or pertaining to the tie reciprocally connecting vassal and chief: as, liege vassalage.
- n. A liegeman; a subject; a vassal; hence, a law-abiding citizen; a peaceably disposed person: as, to disturb the lieges.
- n. A liege lord; one to whom another is bound in fealty or vassalage; a sovereign lord or feudal superior; a lord paramount.
Wiktionary
- n. A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
- n. The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
- adj. Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
- adj. 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.
- adj. Full; perfect; complete; pure.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance.
- adj. 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.
- adj. Full; perfect; complete; pure.
- n. A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.
- n. The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
WordNet 3.0
- n. city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium
- adj. owing or owed feudal allegiance and service
- n. a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service
- n. a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, entitled to feudal allegiance, from Late Latin laeticus, being a semifree colonist in Gaul, from laetus, a semifree colonist, of Germanic origin; see lē- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“My liege is the only man within these borders who has only one wife.”
“Midtown Lunch has learned that Augustin’s Waffles, a New Jersey company that specializes in liege waffles from Belgium, will be starting up their own Waffle Truck in the next 4 to 5 weeks.”
“Mr. Nelson and his liege are the false prophets of sound, measured judgment.”
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“These fellows, who are ready to undertake any service, however criminal, for which they are paid, certainly do not deserve to be called liege subjects.”
“They said they were something called liege men of what I gather is a sort of warlord named Bjorn.”
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“When she is forcibly enchanted by a man she is tailing for her faerie liege lord, she not only loses fourteen years of her life to being a fish, she loses everything she worked for in the human world, including her family.”
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““My liege, a moment,” one of the guards hastened to say.”
“Now a one-armed scribe and a heavy drinker, Malgwyn rejects the half-life that his liege gave him.”
“As Toby tries to settle down, licking her wounds from her last escapades in Rosemary and Rue, she is asked by her liege, the Duke Sylvester Torquill of the Shadowed Hills to check on his [...]”
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