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liege

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/liːd͡ʒ/(UK)
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/liːd͡ʒ/(UK) · /liːʒ/(UK)

Definition of liege

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
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noun

  1. A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
  2. A king or lord.
    “More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!”
    “Kings, my liege, may take a lesson from him”
  3. The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance.
    “a liege lord”
    “She look'd as grand as doomsday and as grave: / And he, he reverenced his liege lady there;”
  2. (not-comparable)Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, such as a vassal to his lord; faithful.
    “a liege man; a liege subject”
  3. (not-comparable, obsolete)Full; perfect; complete; pure.
    “it was a release by Katherine de Ros in her liege widowhood to Sir Thomas de Stirkeland”

name

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Liège, a city in Belgium.

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Etymology

From Middle English liege, lege, lige, from Anglo-Norman lige, from Old French liege (“liege, free”), from Middle High German ledic, ledec (“free, empty, vacant”) (Modern German ledig (“unmarried”)) from Proto-Germanic…

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From Middle English liege, lege, lige, from Anglo-Norman lige, from Old French liege (“liege, free”), from Middle High German ledic, ledec (“free, empty, vacant”) (Modern German ledig (“unmarried”)) from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz (“flexible, free, unoccupied”). Akin to Old Frisian leþeg, leþoch (“free”), Old English liþiġ (“flexible”), Old Norse liðugr (“free, unhindered”), Old Saxon lethig (“idle”), Low German leddig (“empty”), Middle Dutch ledich (“idle, unemployed”) (Dutch ledig (“empty”) and leeg (“empty”)), Middle English lethi (“unoccupied, at leisure”). An alternate etymology traces the Old French word to Late Latin laeticus (“of or relating to a semifree colonist in Gaul”), from Latin laetus (“a semi-free colonist”), from Gothic *𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*lēts) (attested in derivatives such as 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (fralēts)), from Proto-Germanic *lētaz (“freeman; bondsman, serf”), from *lētaną (“to let; free; release”).

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