noun বিশেষ্য

Fief meaning in bengali

fief

  • Pronunciation

    /fiːf/

  • Definition

    a piece of land held under the feudal system

    সামন্ততন্ত্রের অধীনে জমির একটি অংশ

  • Synonyms

    feoff (feoff)

noun বিশেষ্য

Fief meaning in bengali

fief

  • Definitions

    1. Land held of a superior, particularly on condition of homage, fealty, and personal service, especially military service.

    বিশেষ করে শ্রদ্ধা, আনুগত্য, এবং ব্যক্তিগত সেবা, বিশেষ করে সামরিক পরিষেবার শর্তে একজন উচ্চপদস্থ ব্যক্তির জমি।

  • Examples:
    1. And be it further ordained and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Right and Title of the said Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal, in and to all and singular the said Fiefs and Seigniories of the Island of Montreal, of the Lake of the Two Mountains, and of Saint Sulpice, and their several Dependencies, and in and to all Seigniorial and Feudal Rights, Privileges, Dues, and Duties arising out of and from the same, and in and to all and every the Domains, Lands, Reservations, Buildings, Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the said several Fiefs and Seigniories now held and possessed by them as Proprietors thereof, shall be and they are hereby confirmed and declared good, valid, and effectual in the Law;

    2. By the 14th century, however, fief holding was in decline, as salaries and retainer fees, rather than fiefs, became standard for aristocrats in binding their knights to them, and as kings increasingly exercised royal power directly or through judges and bureaucrats, not through dukes and counts. Fief holding, which is what "feudalism" must be considered to mean if the term has any precise meaning at all—and what the term meant when it was coined in the 17th century—had become an insignificant part of social and governmental relations by the end of the Middle Ages.

    3. Fief: m[asculine] A Fief. A (Knights) fee, a Mannor, or inheritance held by homage, and fealty; and given at the firſt, in truſt, and upon promiſe of aſſiſtance, or ſervice in the wars: Alſo, a Tenure, or Eſtate in fief, or in fee. This word was firſt heard of, after the conqueſt of Gallia by theFrancs (or ancient French-men) when their Soveraign Princes, reſerving ſome land for their own Domains, diſtributed the reſt (by whole Countreys, or large territories) among their Captains, and principal followers, on condition, that they ſhould hold of them, and aid them in their wars

    4. Investiture was the conferring of a fief by the lord to the vassal, and the rite consisted in the handing over by the lord of some symbolic object intended to represent the act of concession.

    5. The chief obligation of a sipahi was to take up residence on his fief and to be prepared at all times to rally, armed for battle, to his banner-holder's flag on the sultan's order. According to the income of his fief, every sipahi had to raise a fixed number of armed horsemen (cebeli), who followed him on campaigns.

    6. Where a vassal kills the brother, son, or grandson of his lord, he should lose his fief on account of it.

  • 2. Synonym of estate: any land, when considered as a region over which the owner exercises lordly control.

    এস্টেটের সমার্থক শব্দ: যে কোনো জমি, যখন এমন একটি অঞ্চল হিসাবে বিবেচিত হয় যার উপর মালিক প্রভুর নিয়ন্ত্রণ ব্যবহার করে।

  • Examples:
    1. Through the years of my childhood my maternal grandmother remained the one unforgettable presence, the strong country woman ruling over her farm like a medieval lord. On her fief I first opened my eyes to poetry and to the land. There was something of the ancient matriarch in her, who had given her life to the ground, who felt that on her fief in southern Luxembourg she stood in the right place.

  • Synonyms

    fee (ফি)

    fiefdom (জাহাত)

    in fief (ফিফে)

noun বিশেষ্য

Fiefdom meaning in bengali

জাহাত

  • Definition

    the domain controlled by a feudal lord

    সামন্ত প্রভু দ্বারা নিয়ন্ত্রিত ডোমেইন

  • Definition

    The fiefdom covered over one hundred acres.

    জামাত একশ একরেরও বেশি জুড়ে।

noun বিশেষ্য

Fiefdom meaning in bengali

জাহাত

  • Definition

    an organization that is controlled by a dominant person or group

    একটি সংস্থা যা একটি প্রভাবশালী ব্যক্তি বা গোষ্ঠী দ্বারা নিয়ন্ত্রিত হয়

  • Definition

    The boss treated the department as a personal fiefdom.

    বস বিভাগটিকে ব্যক্তিগত জামানত হিসাবে বিবেচনা করেছিলেন।