fief vs land

fief

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

  • A territory, a domain, an area over which one exercises lordly control, particularly with regard to corporate or governmental bureaucracies. 

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

land

noun
  • Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected. 

  • The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. 

  • The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming. 

  • lant; urine 

  • The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing. 

  • On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits. 

  • realm, domain. 

  • In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows. 

  • A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry. 

  • The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing. 

  • A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires. 

  • The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc. 

  • A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland. 

  • A country or region. 

  • A shock or fright. 

  • The space between the rifling grooves in a gun. 

verb
  • To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score 

  • (of a blow) To deliver. 

  • To descend to a surface, especially from the air. 

  • To come into rest. 

  • To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water. 

  • To acquire; to secure. 

  • To go down well with an audience. 

  • To bring to land. 

  • (of a punch) To connect 

  • To capture or arrest. 

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