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English
Etymology
From feudal + -ism.
Pronunciation
Noun
feudalism (countable and uncountable, plural feudalisms)
- A social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a suzerain (lord) and a vassal (subject). Defining characteristics are direct ownership of resources, personal loyalty, and a hierarchical social structure reinforced by religion.
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Translations
social system
- Arabic: إِقْطَاعِيَّة f (ʔiqṭāʕiyya)
- Armenian: ֆեոդալիզմ (hy) (feodalizm), ավատատիրություն (hy) (avatatirutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: feodalizm
- Bashkir: феодализм (feodalizm)
- Catalan: feudalisme m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 封建制度 (zh) (fēngjiàn zhìdù)
- Czech: feudalismus m
- Danish: feudalisme c, lenssystem n
- Dutch: feodalisme (nl) n, leenstelsel (nl) n
- Esperanto: feŭdismo
- Finnish: feodalismi (fi)
- French: féodalisme (fr) m
- Georgian: ფეოდალიზმი (peodalizmi)
- German: Feudalismus (de) m
- Greek: φεουδαρχία (el) f (feoudarchía), δουλοπαροικία (el) f (douloparoikía)
- Hungarian: feudalizmus (hu)
- Icelandic: lénsskipulag n, lénskerfi n, lénsveldi n
- Indonesian: feodalisme (id)
- Japanese: 封建制度 (ja) (hōken seido)
- Kazakh: феодализм (feodalizm)
- Korean: 봉건제도(封建制度) (ko) (bonggeonjedo)
- Latin: feudalismus m
- Macedonian: феудали́зам m (feudalízam)
- Malay: feudalisme
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: føydalisme m
- Nynorsk: føydalisme m
- Persian: فئودالیسم (fa)
- Polish: feudalizm (pl) m
- Portuguese: feudalismo (pt)
- Romanian: feudalism (ro) n, orânduire feudală (ro) f
- Russian: феодали́зм (ru) m (feodalízm), феода́льный строй m (feodálʹnyj stroj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: феудалѝзам m
- Roman: feudalìzam (sh) m
- Slovak: feudalizmus (sk) m
- Spanish: feudalismo (es) m
- Swahili: ukabaila
- Swedish: feodalism (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagkamalaalipin
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: feodalizm (tr), feodalite (tr), derebeylik (tr)
- Vietnamese: chế độ phong kiến (vi)
- Welsh: ffiwdaliaeth f, trefn ffiwdal f
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian feudalismo, French féodalisme. Equivalent to feudal + -ism.
Pronunciation
Noun
feudalism n (uncountable)
- feudalism
