Crossword clues for fiefdom
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, from fief + -dom.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The estate controlled by a feudal lord; a fief. 2 (context by extension mostly pejorative English) Any organization in the control of a dominant individual.
WordNet
n. the domain controlled by a feudal lord
an organization that is controlled by a dominat person or group
Usage examples of "fiefdom".
A competent middle-aged soldier named Captain Smythe, along with Rashed, handled the typical workload required for overseeing a fiefdom with four villages.
His Royal and Imperial Majesty, Vaughan the First, surnamed The Terrible, this planet is inviolate soil, bounden into the fiefdom of His Majesty as Duke of Trasimere, and thereby into the Empire.
The apparent invasion seemed to be on the borders of his Dalers Troth fiefdom, one of the few things that could lure him away from dicing and drinking.
They ride iron horses, fight holy wars with other gangs over the honor of club colors, loot and wench in their jealously guarded fiefdoms and rely in the end on the protection offered by the castle the club.
He had never seen why insurrectionists should want to mimic those old village fiefdoms in the badlands where landworkers never saw coin but took what the local big-man gave them.
But Natchez is his legal fiefdom now, and if he chooses to behave like George Raft in a bad film noir, he can.
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Josef Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, the inner group of Naziism, were at the same time heads of minor fiefdoms within the Nazi State.
But the people of the New Canada would never know it, for that bomb was the lever he would use to take over some small Ontarian fiefdom.
A stockade, a prison camp, stalag, ghetto, torture chamber, charnel house, abattoir, duchy, fiefdom, Army co-op mess hall ruled by a neckless thug.
The others, such as Lord Fergus of Kingsbay and Lord Macshea of Cantrev Macsheehan, ruled small fiefdoms which were still recovering from the war.
The decretals need decreting, the world it needs its words, Lord Lucer to the mines again, Beangern to his fiefdom, Alice to her Judgment Chair.
Byron thought appropriate, for here the fate of three fiefdoms would be decided.
Ruwendian lords and ladies of the manor governed their tiny fiefdoms with a light hand, following the example of the throne, and everyone had prospered except the lazy, who did not deserve to.
From the lawless elements rose a new breed of leader, barons who ran their own fiefdoms like medieval lords, paying armies of mercenaries to protect and expand their borders.
Used to be called fiefdoms, until we decided that was too behind the times.