What is the answer to the crossword clue "feudal lord"?

There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Five squares is LIEGE and that is very likely your answer, since the eight-letter alternatives are both spellings of one uncommon word. LIEGE is a crossword regular for its vowel pattern.

How many letters is the answer to "feudal lord"?

Anything from 5 to 8. The length with the most candidates is 8. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.

Crossword clue

Feudal lord crossword clue

3 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "feudal lord", from 5 letters up to 8, grouped below by the length of your slot.

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Answers by length

2 different lengths answer this one. Yours is whichever row matches the squares in the grid.

Letters	Answers
5	liege
8	seigneur seignior

What this list looks like

2 of these mean the same as the clue and 1 are kinds of it, which is a distinction worth holding on to when two look equally good.

Which one does the setter mean?

Five squares is LIEGE and that is very likely your answer, since the eight-letter alternatives are both spellings of one uncommon word. LIEGE is a crossword regular for its vowel pattern.

How these differ

LIEGE is the confusing one and worth getting straight: it describes both parties to the bond, so a liege lord is owed service and a liege man owes it, and context alone separates them. SEIGNEUR is the French form and SEIGNIOR the anglicised spelling, both meaning the holder of a manor and the lord to whom its tenants owed dues. Neither says anything about rank in the peerage: a seigneur might hold one village.

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Where these answers come from

These came out of a dictionary. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “feudal lord” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.

Common questions

What is the answer to the crossword clue "feudal lord"?: There is more than one. 3 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Five squares is LIEGE and that is very likely your answer, since the eight-letter alternatives are both spellings of one uncommon word. LIEGE is a crossword regular for its vowel pattern.
How many letters is the answer to "feudal lord"?: Anything from 5 to 8. The length with the most candidates is 8. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.