Definition of feuds Feuds
/fjuˈdz/ - [fyudz] -
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Wiktionary 
- feuds (Noun)
Plural of feud.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: feuds |
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| feud - a bitter quarrel between two parties | ||
| battle, struggle, conflict a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" | ||
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| feud - carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for years" | ||
| fight, struggle, contend fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!" | ||
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Wiktionary
- feud (Noun)
A state of long-standing mutual hostility. - feud (Noun)
A staged rivalry between wrestlers. - feud (Noun)
A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. - feud (Noun)
An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service. - feud (Verb)
To carry on a feud.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- feud (n.)
A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. - feud (n.)
A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. - feud (n.)
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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feud
long-running argument or fight, often between social groups of people, especially families or clans
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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feud
fūd, n. a war waged by private individuals, families, or clans against one another on their own account: a bloody strife.—Right of feud, the right to protect one's self and one's kinsmen, and punish injuries. [O. Fr. faide, feide—Low L. faida—Old High Ger. fēhida. See Foe.] -
feud
fūd, n. a fief or land held on condition of service.—adj. Feud′al, pertaining to feuds or fiefs: belonging to feudalism.—n. Feudalisā′tion.—v.t. Feud′alise.—ns. Feud′alism, the system, during the Middle Ages, by which vassals held lands from lords-superior on condition of military service; Feud′alist; Feudal′ity, the state of being feudal: the feudal system.—adv. Feud′ally.—adjs. Feud′ary, Feud′atory, holding lands or power by a feudal tenure—also ns.—ns. Feud′ist, a writer on feuds: one versed in the laws of feudal tenure. [Low L. feudum, from root of fee.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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feud
A contention or quarrel; especially an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties in a state; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.
