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vassal
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural vassals
plural vassals
Learner's definition of VASSAL
[count]
: a person in the past who received protection and land from a lord in return for loyalty and service（旧时因对封建领主效忠或尽心而获封土地和庇护的）封臣，家臣 — often used figuratively to describe a person, country, etc., that is controlled by someone or something more powerful常用作比喻，指受制于强势者的人或国家
- The states became vassals of the empire.那些国家变成了帝国的属国。
vassal adjective
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web His only demand from Beijing is for a full grant of autonomy to the Uyghurs under the terms of China’s constitution and for an end to the vassal-like subordination of Uyghurs by the Han Chinese. 
Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 15 July 2022 Anyone not Dahomean was either a vassal, a victim, or a captive to be sold to European trading companies, which had established barracoons by the sea. David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 This time round, the only ones on the Russian side are the Russian Federation itself, and Belarus, which has effectively become a Russian vassal state in the last couple years and served as a launchpad for this year's Ukraine invasion. David Meyer, Fortune, 1 July 2022 Basically, this would turn Russia into a colony of China and Putin into Xi’s vassal. Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022 The answer is to be seen in Belarus, now largely a Russian vassal state. Jason Fields, The Week, 22 Mar. 2022 Western analysts have warned that, despite tougher-than-expected resistance from Ukrainian forces and sanctions by the U.S. and its allies, Putin appears determined to prosecute the war until Ukraine is conquered and turned into a vassal state. Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022 Russia is now again promising humanitarian corridors…leading to Russia and its vassal Belarus. David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2022 Because Moscow retains a close partner in this effort to geld Ukraine—a vassal state that presents the model for what Putin would like to accomplish in Ukraine: Belarus. Casey Michel, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022 See More
Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 15 July 2022 Anyone not Dahomean was either a vassal, a victim, or a captive to be sold to European trading companies, which had established barracoons by the sea. David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 This time round, the only ones on the Russian side are the Russian Federation itself, and Belarus, which has effectively become a Russian vassal state in the last couple years and served as a launchpad for this year's Ukraine invasion. David Meyer, Fortune, 1 July 2022 Basically, this would turn Russia into a colony of China and Putin into Xi’s vassal. Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022 The answer is to be seen in Belarus, now largely a Russian vassal state. Jason Fields, The Week, 22 Mar. 2022 Western analysts have warned that, despite tougher-than-expected resistance from Ukrainian forces and sanctions by the U.S. and its allies, Putin appears determined to prosecute the war until Ukraine is conquered and turned into a vassal state. Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022 Russia is now again promising humanitarian corridors…leading to Russia and its vassal Belarus. David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2022 Because Moscow retains a close partner in this effort to geld Ukraine—a vassal state that presents the model for what Putin would like to accomplish in Ukraine: Belarus. Casey Michel, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin vassallus "serf of the manor house, household servant, lord's man who has received a fief," borrowed from Gaulish *wassall-, derivative of *wass- "servant" (whence Medieval Latin vassus "serf, servant, holder of a fief"), going back to Celtic *wosto-, whence Welsh gwas "boy, servant," Middle Breton goas, Old Irish foss "servant, attendant"
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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