Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun feudalism

1 sense of feudalism

Sense 1
feudalism, feudal system -- (the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war)
       => social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure -- (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family")