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noun
- A local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
- An administrative chief in modern Poland.
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| vassal |
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noun
- The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
- A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave.
verb (vasal, l, ing)
- (transitive) To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
- (transitive) To subordinate to someone or something.
adjective
- Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
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| vassalage |
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noun
- The state of being a vassal.
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| verge |
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noun
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- An edge or border.
- (obsolete) A male rod, phallus
- (metaphore) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen
- I was on the verge of tears.
verb (verges, verging, verged, )
- (intransitive) To come very close; to border; to approach.
- Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
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noun - A person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period.
adjective (wikipedia, Victorian era)
- Of, or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or of that period
- Of, or displaying the supposed standards or ideals of morality of that period
- Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period
- Of, or relating to the state of Victoria in Australia
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| Viking |
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proper noun
- One of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8th to 11th centuries.
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| viscount |
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noun
- A member of the peerage above a baron but below a count or earl.
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| viscountess |
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noun
- The wife of a viscount.
- A female member of the peerage who bears the title in her own right.
- Before his own elevation to an earldom, Disraeli's wife was created Viscountess Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria.
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| vizier |
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noun
- A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
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