English Dictionary

fief

IPA（発音記号）

/fiːf/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法

An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior. / Something over which one has rights or exercises control.

日本語の意味

上官に対する軍事奉仕の義務を条件として、その人物が保有する領地（封建制度における封土）。 / 何らかの権利が及び支配権が行使される対象となる領域や地域。

The knight received a fief from his lord in exchange for promising to lead troops in battle.

その騎士は、戦いで部隊を率いることを約束する代わりに、領主から封地を受け取った。

意味（1）

An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior.

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 the Francs (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 […]

意味（2）

Something over which one has rights or exercises control.

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.

意味（3）

(figuratively) An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.

fiefs （ plural ）